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Antique Roman Earrings with Garnets in Gold, 2nd century AD

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Antique Roman Earrings with Garnets in Gold, 2nd century AD

Description

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Holding a piece of jewelry from the distant past in your hands can bridge millennia. We know nothing about the wearer of these earrings, which were created almost 2000 years ago in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. Nothing about what preoccupied the wearer, where exactly she lived, what pleasures she loved and what worries she feared. And yet we are holding an object in our hands that she also held, that she liked and that gave her pleasure. The boat-shaped body of the large and very sculpturally designed earrings is made of thin sheet gold filled with resin or plaster. A large drop-shaped garnet is set in a granulated setting on the front. An arrangement of further garnets and gold spheres of different sizes is added at the bottom. The earrings are designed in the boat shape that was popular throughout antiquity. Similar designs were first created in Cyprus in 1300 BC and then spread throughout the Mediterranean region. In the centuries that followed, they differed mainly in the ornamentation applied to them. The rich decoration of the present pair with garnets and garnets shows that they were created in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire or in neighboring areas such as the Persian Parthian Empire, in the 2nd century A.D. The Walters Museum in Baltimore keeps a pair of earrings (Inv. No. VO.92) that resemble the present pair in many details. According to the previous owners, the earrings were acquired around 1978 in the art dealership of Baroness Irene von Ohlendorf in Munich and then came into private ownership in East Westphalia through inheritance. The earrings are in very good condition and were restored at an earlier date. To wear them, the upper wires were originally bent apart. In order not to damage them, our goldsmiths can add simple earwires for hanging on request. On boat-shaped earrings in antiquity, see Daniela Mascetti & Amanda Triosso: Earrings. From Antiquity to the Present, London 1990, p. 24

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€ 5,980.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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