Pendant necklace by Jean Baptiste Périclès

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A necklace with a pendant designed and created by Jean Baptiste Périclès. The pendant is tear-drop shaped, slightly concaved, and hammered. On the front of it are pieces of metal laid ontop. There are two hollow circles, three triangles, two rectangles, and one obelisk-like shape but pointed at both ends. The chain of the necklace is comprised of thin, flattened pieces of metals with looped ends for a circular link used to connect the flattened links.

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