Pair of Earrings

1st century BC (Hellenistic) 2 5/16 in. (5.8 cm) Citation Source image

Made of gold, these earrings have three flanged settings with stones, each set within a bead-edged frame, displayed against a roughly triangular sheet on the back of which the ear wire is attached. A pin concealed behind the transverse bar below the settings secures six pendan...

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[From a tomb near Olbia, Parutino, Ukraine (?)]; F. L. van Gans, Frankfurt (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; P. Mavrogordato, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague [catalogue 1921, part II, lot 92 D]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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