Earring

6th century (Late Antique)

3.7 cm 9.7 cm 0.6 cm

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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 am...

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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.
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