Small Wonders: Early Gems and Jewels
Small Wonders: Early Gems and Jewels
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
A PAIR OF ROMAN GOLD AND GLASS EARRINGS, CIRCA 2ND/4TH CENTURY A.D.
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Property from a Swiss Private Collection
A PAIR OF ROMAN GOLD AND GLASS EARRINGS, CIRCA 2ND/4TH CENTURY A.D.
Height: 3 cm each
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Nicolas Tano, Cairo
Carl Leonhardt Burckhardt (b. 1902, Basel, d. 1965, Alexandria), acquired from the above, February 4th, 1944
thence by descent
For a similar pair of earrings depicted on a Romano-Egyptian mummy portrait in the Getty collection, see http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/7078/attributed-to-malibu-painter-mummy-portrait-romano-egyptian-ad-75-100/?dz=0.5869,0.7546,1.32.