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LOT 0751
Roman Decorated Bronze Bracelet
2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/2 in. (27.35 grams, 65 mm).
Penannular body with stylised beast-head finials, ring-and-dot and linear decoration on the upper face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a private Tyneside collection, formed since the early 2000s.
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Eastern Roman Gold Hoop Earrings with Stone Inlays
3rd-4th century A.D.Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £750
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. 9.26 grams total, 37-38 mm
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.
As a result of the expansion of the Roman Empire, jewellery became more and more elaborate in its designs and materials used, such as precious and semi-precious gemstones. This pair of earrings represent a highly baroque evolution of the boat-shaped type, already visible in Etruscan jewellery and certainly in Roman jewellery, as demonstrated by the excavations of Herculaneum. Using the body of the boat-shaped earrings, the late Imperial artist added decorative clusters and applications of pearled borders and precious stones, according to the taste of Eastern Hellenism rooted for centuries in the provinces of the Black Sea and Roman Asia. -
Roman Black Glass Bead Necklace String
1st-4th century A.D. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £52
Restrung group of oblate and other types with bulbous pendant centrepiece; including some 'Indo-Pacific' beads. 10.4 grams, 45.5 cm
London, UK, collection, 2000s. -
Roman Bronze Handle with Face
1st-4th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Section of ewer handle with attachment panel formed as a gorgoneion with hollow reverse. 59.4 grams, 89 mm
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
