A PAIR OF HELLENISTIC GOLD LION-HEADED EARRINGS, the finely worked lion's head with mouth open to receive the pointed end of the tapering twisted wire hoop, with decorated collar, late 4th-3rd Century B.C., ½in. (1.3cm.) long max.; and a pair of Hellenistic gold bull-headed earrings, the head separated from the tongued collar by a cornelian bead, with tapering twisted extended gold wire hoop, 3rd-2nd Century B.C., 1in. (2.6cm.) long max. (4) | Christie's

Lot 322

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A PAIR OF HELLENISTIC GOLD LION-HEADED EARRINGS, the finely worked lion's head with mouth open to receive the pointed end of the tapering twisted wire hoop, with decorated collar, late 4th-3rd Century B.C., ½in. (1.3cm.) long max.; and a pair of Hellenistic gold bull-headed earrings, the head separated from the tongued collar by a cornelian bead, with tapering twisted extended gold wire hoop, 3rd-2nd Century B.C., 1in. (2.6cm.) long max. (4)

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A PAIR OF HELLENISTIC GOLD LION-HEADED EARRINGS, the finely worked lion's head with mouth open to receive the pointed end of the tapering twisted wire hoop, with decorated collar, late 4th-3rd Century B.C., ½in. (1.3cm.) long max.; and a pair of Hellenistic gold bull-headed earrings, the head separated from the tongued collar by a cornelian bead, with tapering twisted extended gold wire hoop, 3rd-2nd Century B.C., 1in. (2.6cm.) long max. (4)

Lot Essay

These pairs of earrings represent two stages in the development of the animal-headed hoop form which was to survive into the early Roman period in the Eastern Mediterranean

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