CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A PAIR OF EAST ROMAN GOLD EARRINGS
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Each with convex disc hung with a pendant crossbar with two convex tear-drops with twin wire volutes and granulated decoration between, perhaps a stylized bee, ear wire hoop behind, 1¼ in. (2.8 cm.) long; a pair of Roman gold ball-and-disc earrings, each with large hollow pendant sphere formed from two hemispheres, with disc above and 's'-shaped ear wire, oval indentation in sphere at back, 1st Century A.D., 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long; and another pair of Roman gold earrings, each with convex disc hung with convex tear-drop pendant, ear wire hoop behind, circa 2nd Century A.D., 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm.) long (6)

Provenance

Sold Habsburg, Feldman, Gold, Geneva, 14 May 1990, lot 290 (item one); acquired in 1978 from Herbert Cahn, Basel (item two); and acquired in 1969 (item three).

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Item two: cf. F. H. Marshall, Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, The British Museum, London, 1969, p. 302, nos. 2620-2621, pl. LIV; and S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces: mummy portraits from Roman Egypt, The British Museum, London, 1997, pp. 162-163, no. 183-184 for the type.

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