A PAIR OF GREEK GOLD EARRINGS
A PAIR OF GREEK GOLD EARRINGS

HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.

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A PAIR OF GREEK GOLD EARRINGS
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.
Each with a plain hoop tapering and entering into the back of the head of a Maenad, the head joined to the hoop by a conical collar topped with plain, the maenad wearing a fillet of ivy, outlined in filigree; now joined to modern gold earwires
Each: in. (1.3 cm.) long (2)
Provenance
Private Collection, New York, acquired in the 1990s.

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