Merovingian Gold Hoop Earring with Garnets

5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.

1 3/8 in. (6.36 grams, 34 mm).

With a thick penannular loop and polyhedral finial set with twelve garnet cloisons, some detached.

Provenance

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

Literature

Cf. Menghin, W., The Merovingian Period. Europe Without Borders, Berlin, 2007, item I.33.9.1.

CONDITION

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