Eastern Roman Gold Earrings in the Shape of a Grape

3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.

1 1/2 in. (9.26 grams total, 37-38 mm).

Each with a hollow-formed crescentic hoop, piriform plaque with inset glass panel and granulated border, hollow-bulb cluster beneath with three applied piriform plaques and granule finial. [2]

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12393-226929.

Literature

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 08.251.5, .6, for similar earring.

CONDITION

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