LOT 57 Large Eastern Hellenistic Gold Earrings with Garnets
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3rd-1st century B.C. A matched pair of substantial gold earrings, eachposed of a gold crescentic hoop with looped terminals, filigree ornament and cells set with polished garnet cabochons to the body, pelletted triangular plaques capping a large banded agate bead below, conical finialposed of hollow gold spheres and inverted tear-shaped cells set with garnet, all encrusted with gold granules, each hoop with a length of trichinopoly chain suspending garnet, gold and amethyst beads on a slender coiled wire stem; a marriage. Cf. MET accession no. , for the type ofposition and manufacture style, 2nd century B.C.; Ogden, J. and Williams, D., Greek Gold Jewelry of The Classical World, New York, 1994; Contestabile, H., Hellenistic Jewelry & themoditization of Elite Greek Women in Berkeley Undergraduate Journal of Classics, 2(2), Berkeley, 2013, pp. 1-13, for discussion on the style; Quast, D., Parthian and early Sassanian Earrings with garnet inlay in Le Archeologie di Marilli, miscellanea di studi in ricordo di Maria Maddalena Negro Ponzi Mancini, Alessandria, 2018, pp.123-128, figs.3,5, for other samples with garnet insert. 34.4 grams total, 55-58 mm (2 1/4 in."). Acquired 1990s. Ex property of a London gentleman. Apanied by an archaeological expertise by Dr Raffaele D'Amato. Apanied by scholarly note TL05418 by Dr Ronald Bonewitz. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by AIAD certificate no.11185-186691. The boat-shaped central body is typical of old style Greek earrings and is well attested in the early Hellenistic jewellery from Taranto (William & Ogden, 1994, p.213), but the abundant use of filigree fits with examples from Eastern Mediterranean area (William & Ogden, 1994, p.243). However, during the Parthian period, a new style of decoration became popular in Central and Western Asia: the earrings with garnet and / or glass inlays, developed in the eastern Hellenistic kingdoms and the Arsacid Empire. [2] [A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions ]Condition Report: Fine condition.
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