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| Keywords: Ukrainian - Temple Pendant (Kolt) with Two Birds - Walters 44297 - Back.jpg Kolty singular kolt are pendants that attached to a woman's headdress at the temples The hollow space within the two concave gold disks that compose a kolt contained perfumes or scented oils The pendants were usually decorated on both sides since they could rotate as the woman walked This kolt is decorated with delicate cloisonné enamel a technique learned from Byzantine masters starting in the late 10th century Kolty were frequently worn at wedding ceremonies; the lilies center birds and seeds that fleck the birds' breasts are all symbols of fertility The bird is also an image retained from Russia's pagan past century 12 Medieval gold cloisonné enamel cm 4 7 4 8 0 9 accession number 44 297 11357 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Objects of Adornment Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 Russian Enamels The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1996-1997 Bedazzled 5 000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2006-2009 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Russian Art Icons and Decorative Arts from the Origin to the Twentieth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1959-1960 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 Bedazzled 5 000 Years of Jewelry El Paso Museum of Art El Paso 2010 place of origin Ukraine Walters Art Museum license Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum kolty Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Jewellery of Kievan Rus | ||||
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