CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN GOLD LINK NECKLACE WITH CENTRAL BLUE GLASS INLAY
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
The hollow gold links comprising eighteen double leaf-shaped motifs, twin attachment tubes on reverse, and twenty baluster-shaped beads, pierced twice, a raised blue glass inlay in circular box setting, openwork foliate border and with pendant flattened gold wire loop-in-loop chain, restrung on double strings
11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) long

Provenance

Acquired in 1958 from Jacques Matoussian.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Antiker Schmuck, Gold und Silber, Galerie Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich, 1982, no. 78.

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