Object Details
- Label
- Elaborate gold pendants were worn as earrings or suspended from crowns. Tombs in the Kyongju area (capital of the Silla kingdom) yielded ear pendants similar to this pair (F1917.521-522).These pendants hang from hollow gold loops. Sheet-gold and beaded gold wire are combined to form elaborate but delicate designs.
- Provenance
- To 1917
- Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1917 [1]
- From 1917 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1917 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] Undated folder sheet note. Also see Original Miscellaneous List, S. I. 1270, Freer Galley of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Gold: The Asian Touch (September 10, 2005 to February 20, 2006)
- Korean Art (June 4, 1982 to September 23, 1982)
- Korean Art (July 15, 1981 to September 15, 1981)
- Korean Art (March 20, 1980 to March 3, 1981)
- Korean Art (June 24, 1977 to April 8, 1978)
- Korean Art (November 2, 1959 to November 22, 1971)
- Untitled Exhibition, Korean Art, 1958 (July 10, 1958 to April 15, 1959)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 5th-7th century
- Period
- Three Kingdoms period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Gold
- Dimensions
- H: 7 cm (2 3/4 in)
- Type
- Jewelry and Ornament
