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Source Description
Annular earring with three pendants of plaited chains to each of which is attached a croix patee of hollow gold, the front ornamented with repousse featherings and a central cell holding green vitreous paste; below each cross is suspended an amethyst drop. One cross and one amethyst may be restorations.Hoop earrings with suspended gemstones were worn by women throughout the Byzantine Empire. This unusually fine example has woven "loop-in-loop" chains linked to small gold crosses, indicating that it was made for a Christian woman.
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Document identity
localId
13743
label
Earring
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
13743
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Earring
description
Annular earring with three pendants of plaited chains to each of which is attached a croix patee of hollow gold, the front ornamented with repousse featherings and a central cell holding green vitreous paste; below each cross is suspended an amethyst drop. One cross and one amethyst may be restorations.Hoop earrings with suspended gemstones were worn by women throughout the Byzantine Empire. This unusually fine example has woven "loop-in-loop" chains linked to small gold crosses, indicating that it was made for a Christian woman.
provenance
Amin Khawam, Cairo, by purchase; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, November 30, 1943, no. 519; Walters Art Museum, 1943, by purchase.
date
6th century (Late Antique)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Gold, Silver & Jewelry
earrings (jewelry)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
9.7
height
3.7
depth
0.6
dimensionsRaw
3 13/16 x 1 7/16 x 3/16 in. (9.7 x 3.7 x 0.6 cm)
Source extras
cul
Byzantine
med
gold, amethysts, enamel
creator_ids
6640
collection_ids
ROM
BYZ
JWL
exhibition_ids
449
358
2054
2513
2704
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
cdbad1cdee448f93