HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.

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A PAIR OF GREEK GOLD EARRINGS
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
Each with a carnelian cameo bust of an African, the hair formed from gold sheet adorned with flattened loop-in-loop chain, the neck with gold collar decorated with filigree, a single carnelian bead below with gold collared terminal with filigree decoration
1 in. (2.8 cm.) high max. excl. ear wire (2)

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Reputedly New York art market.
Private collection, California, USA, acquired 1950s-1960s; and thence by descent.
with Noelle and Ronald Mele Ancient Art, 1999.
Private collection, Netherlands.

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It is suggested that these were originally terminals for a necklace, for similar, with comparable tooling of the hair, cf. D. Bindman and H. L. Gates (eds), The Image of the Black in Western Art, Harvard, 1976, p. 200, no. 244.

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