goldwork: Quick Facts

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Minoan gold pendant known as the Malia Bee Pendant, featuring two bees encircling a textured sun with granulation detail, and three gold discs hanging below.

Asante akrafokonmu

Vessel and cover in the shape of a sacred bird, gold decorated with filigree work and inlaid with rubies and imitation emeralds, 19th century; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Height 41.5 cm.

Ceramic bowl repaired with kintsugi, featuring visible gold lines highlighting cracks and breaks in the light brown surface.

hammered gold crown

Gold crown from the Silla Period

Etruscan fibula of sheet gold

gold Etruscan fibula

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Key People

saltcellar of Francis I

Benvenuto Cellini

Italian artist

Phidias

Phidias

Greek sculptor

Fabergé cigarette box

Peter Carl Fabergé

Russian jeweler

Nicholas Hilliard: A Young Man Among Roses

Nicholas Hilliard

English painter

Nicholas of Verdun: Shrine of the Three Kings

Nicholas Of Verdun

Flemish enamelist

Idolino

Polyclitus

Greek sculptor

Myddelton, Sir Hugh, 1st Baronet

Sir Hugh Myddelton, 1st Baronet

Welsh merchant

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Richard Lippold

American sculptor

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Piero del Pollaiuolo

Italian artist

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Antonio del Pollaiuolo

Italian artist

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Maso Finiguerra

Italian artist

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Paul Storr

British goldsmith

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Urs Graf

Swiss artist

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Juste-Aurèle Meissonier

French architect and goldsmith

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Pasiteles

Greek sculptor

Apollo Belvedere, restored Roman copy of the Greek original attributed to Leochares, 4th century bc; in the Vatican Museum, Rome

Leochares

Greek sculptor

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Master E.S.

German engraver

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Godefroid de Claire

Belgian goldsmith

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Alessandro Leopardi

Venetian metal founder, goldsmith, and architect