Lot no. 137
PAIR OF EARRINGS IN GOLD, EMERALD AND GARNET
Roman art, 3rd-4th century AD
A pair of openwork square motifs set with a cylindrical emerald pearl, with three pendants each decorated with a garnet and finished with an emerald pearl.
Gross weight: 4.54 gr.
Height: 4 cm
Provenance: Egon Tanner Collection (1919 - 2009), Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2010
Exhibitions: Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011-August 2023
Bibliography: J. M. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2002, vol. XIII, p. 62, fig. 169
J. M. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2007, vol. XVIII, p. 69, fig. 172
J. Spier, "Roman Jewellery" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2011, p. 157, fig. 11
A Roman pair of gold, emerald and ganret ear pendants,
3rd-4th century A.D.
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