A Gold Armlet, Roman Imperial, Eastern Mediterranean, circa late 3rd/early 4th Century A.D.

made in two sections formerly hinged together, of hollow circular form repoussé in relief and chased on the crest and sides with two rows of large quatrefoils interspersed with small rosettes and theater masks, the petals with finely-notched edges, peltas lining the undecorated inner circumference.

Ars Antiqua, Lucerne, Auktion II. Antike Kunstwerke, May 14th, 1960, no. 173, illus.
acquired by Jan Mitchell between 1960 and 1966

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. nos. L.66.36.4 and L.1988.81.10), from 1966 to 2011

C. Belting-Ihm, "Spätrömisches Buckelarmringe mit Relief-dekor," Jarhbuch des Römische-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, vol. 10, 1963, p. 180, pl. 18.3-4
Herbert Hoffmann, Ten Centuries that Shaped the West. Greek and Roman Art in Texas Collections, Houston, Tex., and Mainz, 1970, p. 472
A. Gonosová and Chr. Kondoleon, Art of Late Rome and Early Byzantium in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, 1994, p. 59, note 9

Good and as shown. Larger section is repaired in two places (at “5 pm and 7 pm”) .The pins linking the two sections are missing and a modern gold hook at one end of the smaller section links them loosely together. Minor nicks and dents.
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For a closely related bracelet cf. A. Gonosová and Chr. Kondoleon, op. cit., no. 13, pp. 58-59 (a bracelet said to be from Tartus, the ancient Antaradus in Syria, and formerly in the de Clercq Collection), citing other examples.