Bracelet with a Comma-Shaped Ornament (Gogok) Artist: Unknown

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5th–6th century c.e.

Asian Art

On view, 2nd floor, Asian Art

In Korea, comma-shaped ornaments decorated belts, crowns, necklaces, and bracelets. This bracelet combines quartz with forty-two small, dark blue glass beads. Known as Indo-Pacific beads, they were made in southern India for trade to Southeast Asia and beyond. Thousands of these glass beads have been excavated in Korea, attesting to the importance of maritime trade to Silla, which was located in the southern part of the peninsula.

Medium

Quartz and glass

Dimensions

Pendant with Beads: 4 3/4 × 3/4 × 1/4 in. (12.07 × 1.91 × 0.64 cm)
Large Pendant: 1 7/8 × 1 × 5/8 in. (4.76 × 2.54 × 1.59 cm)
Small Pendant: 1 1/16 × 3/8 × 1/4 in. (2.7 × 0.95 × 0.64 cm)

Credit Line

Lent by the Peabody Museum of Natural History, YPM ANT 295688

Loan number

ILE2017.13.10.1-.3

Geography

Korea

Culture

Korean

Period

Silla Kingdom (57 B.C.E.–676 C.E.)

Classification

Jewelry

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No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

bracelets (jewelry)

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