1ST CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN GOLD BOSS BRACELET OF POMPEIIAN TYPE
1ST CENTURY A.D.
Composed of eight pairs of hollow sheet gold hemispheres, each pair joined by a double beaded wire collar, each terminal composed of an ivy leaf flanked by two rosettes and decorated with three gold granules to which are attached the hinge-type fastener, the bosses containing remains of sulphur infill and linked together with later hooks and loops
7¾ in. (19.5 cm.) long

Provenance

Finckenstein collection.
Stahlberg collection.
European private collection: sold Christie's London, 13 May 2003, lot 448.

Exhibited

Kunst der Antike, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1977.

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Sale room notice

The exhibited date should read 1977-1986.

Lot Essay

For a similar bracelet, cf. Christie's London, 11 June 1997, lot 71; also J. Ward-Perkins and A. Claridge, Pompeii AD79, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1976, no. 62 found in a villa at Boscoreale in 1908 (Musée de Mariemont, inv. B.357) "These armlets appeared suddenly in the first century AD, ... and remained very popular until the second century. At least seven examples are known from Pompeii". Also J. Ogden, Ancient Jewellery, The British Museum, London, 1992, p. 15, fig. 6.

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