Archipel Études interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien 97 | 2019 Varia JAVA : ARTS AND REPRESENTATIONS. Art historical and Archaeometric Analyses of Ancient Jewellery (7–16th C.) : The Prillwitz Collection of Javanese Gold Analyses stylistiques et archéométriques de bijoux anciens (VIIe-XVIe siècle) : la collection Prillwitz d’or javanais Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz and Nicole Lockhoff Electronic version URL: https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/1018 DOI: 10.4000/archipel.1018 ISSN: 2104-3655 Publisher Association Archipel Printed version Date of publication: 11 June 2019 Number of pages: 19-68 ISBN: 978-2-910513-81-8 ISSN: 0044-8613 Electronic reference Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz and Nicole Lockhoff, “JAVA : ARTS AND REPRESENTATIONS. Art historical and Archaeometric Analyses of Ancient Jewellery (7–16th C.) : The Prillwitz Collection of Javanese Gold”, Archipel [Online], 97 | 2019, Online since 11 June 2019, connection on 15 September 2021. URL: http:// journals.openedition.org/archipel/1018 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.1018 Association Archipel JAVA: ARTS AND REPRESENTATIONS MAI LIN TJOA-BONATZ AND NICOLE LOCKHOFF 1 Art historical and Archaeometric Analyses of Ancient Jewellery (7–16th C.): The Prillwitz Collection of Javanese Gold Introduction 1 Jewellery has been the most common form of gold ware found in Southeast Asia since the late 1st millennium BCE. Those items included are ear ornaments and rings – worn on the fingers, ears, toes or as pendants. During the 7th to early 16th centuries,2 conventionally referred to as the Classical Period, Java produced mostly unique rings in a copious variety and intricate 1. Dr. Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz is an art historian and archaeologist,
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