CIRCA 6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.

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A BYZANTINE GOLD AND PEARL EARRING CHAIN
CIRCA 6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) long max.

Provenance

New York art market prior to 1987.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 15 December 1992, lot 59 (unsold).

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Descrizione dettagliata lotto

The earrings are adorned with pearl pendants and larger openwork triangular pendants threaded with a long chain, decorated with three small sheet gold discs repoussé stylised frontal heads. For a discussion on this type of jewellery, see M. Schulze, Frühmittelalterliche Kettenohrringe, in Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, 14, 1984, pp. 325 ff., pl. 41, and Collection Hélène Stathatos. Les Objets Byzantins et Post-Byzantins, Strasbourg, 1957, pp. 13-14, for a similar necklace (Stathatos Coll. ST 518 a), in the National Museum in Athens.

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