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LOT 0754
Roman Gold Earrings with Shield
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 - 1 3/4 in. (6.57 grams total, 42-44 mm).
A matched pair, each a braided hoop with an applied shield-shaped disc, collar with a cluster of hollow spherical grapes with granule clusters below. [2]
ProvenanceAcquired in 1992.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
See Ruseva-Slokoska, L., Roman Jewellery, Sofia, 1991, item32(a), for type.
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