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LOT 2313
Post Byzantine Gold Earring with Cross and Garnet
CIRCA 17TH-18TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (6.53 grams, 44 mm).
Penannular hoop with applied collars, applied discoid plaque with beaded rim and openwork cross to the centre, lateral granule clusters, facetted garnet bead below.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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