Pair of Earrings

2nd half 1st century

2.1 cm 3.7 cm 1.3 cm

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Seven crumpled hemispheres are placed in front of a second zone of nine hemispheres, which in turn are mounted on a flattened ring, all made of gold. Granules appear between the hemispheres. In back, the opening of the ring is crossed vertically and horizontally by two struts...

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E. Guilhou Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Collection de M. Guilhou: Objects Antiques, Hotel Drouot, 16-18 March 1905, lot 165, illust. [said to be from Boscoreale, Matrone excavations at Fondo Bottaro]; Collection of Fred Werther [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mrs. Fred Werther, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, April 1962, by purchase.
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