GREEK AND ETRUSCAN JEWELRY
Author(s): C. P. D.
Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, Vol. 9, No. 2 (APRIL, 1924), pp. 20-27 Published by: St. Louis Art Museum
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“One of the pieces of jewelry in the Museum is an Etruscan head band about 9-13/16 inches long, from the VI to V century B. C., the larger part of which consists of seventeen alternating units of oblong and oval form surrounded by a chain of peculiar construction. Five of these are raised ovals covered with a frost or dusting of granulations, except in the center which is in the form of a cupped Rower with a small bead at the intersection of the petals, and having in the bottom of the cup an eight petaled flower which revolves freely on a pivot; eight of the other units are oblong in form of an eight petaled flower, the petals alternately plain and frosted, with beads at intersecting angles and outlined by wires. The other four ovals are open on the face with a pattern in filigree.
Depending from the lower side of the band are fine wire chains from which dangle hollow stamped leaf and flower forms and sixteen little disks on which are fine wire loops radiating from a very small bead in the center.”
