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PAIR OF ROMAN GOLD AND EMERALD AND GARNET EAR PENDANTS

Each with a reticulated square plate centering a rectangular emerald from which hang three gold rods, a cabochon garnet on the top and a rectangular emerald on the bottom of each.

Ex Egon Tanner collection, Schaffhausen.

3rd Century AD

L. 1 1/2 in. (4 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2007, no. 172
CBS12
$3,750


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For a nearly identical pair in the Mainz Museum, see: L. Pirzio Biroli Stefanelli, L’oro dei Romani, 1992, p. 269, no. 237, abb. 269.

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