Ring with a Tortoise Motif on a Circular Bezel in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2009

Ring with a Tortoise Motif on a Circular Bezel

Accession # 1998.544.290

All of the gold objects in this case are from the Indonesian island of Java and date to the Central Javanese period , 8th-early 10th century. Except as noted, they are from the Samuel Eilenberg-Jonathan P. Rosen Collection of Indonesian Gold, Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg and Gift of Jonathan P. Rosen, 1998.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.