拍品 60
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JEWELLERY THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN An important Achaemenid tomb group, circa 6th Century B.C., comprising:
A GOLD CLOISONNE AND CHALCEDONY DROP EARRING, comprising a bluish-grey chalcedony 'tear-drop' set in a gold cloisonné mount, inlaid with a turquoise, lapis lazuli and white shell(?) frieze of bird heads between chevron bands set with alternate turquoise and lapis triangles, the cone-shaped mount suspended by a pierced sphere with seven segments, originally inlaid; and another similar suspension mount from the pair, circa 6th Century B.C.

细节
A GOLD CLOISONNE AND CHALCEDONY DROP EARRING, comprising a bluish-grey chalcedony 'tear-drop' set in a gold cloisonné mount, inlaid with a turquoise, lapis lazuli and white shell(?) frieze of bird heads between chevron bands set with alternate turquoise and lapis triangles, the cone-shaped mount suspended by a pierced sphere with seven segments, originally inlaid; and another similar suspension mount from the pair, circa 6th Century B.C.
1¾in. (4.7cm.) long max. (2)

拍品专文

The practice of gold and cloisonné work in jewellery was popular from the beginning of the 1st millennium (cf. the royal tombs at Tanis) onwards. Recent finds in Nimrud, North Iraq, have revealed inlaid jewellery from 8th-7th Century B.C., see National Geographic, vol. 179, no. 5, May 1991, p. 11, showing an armband with cloisonné and turquoise. From the Achaemenid Period there are many examples, most notably the Oxus Treasure, cf. H. Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient, 1970, no. 443; also, A. Kozloff, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Cleveland, 1981, no. 34