MATCHING PAIR OF BYZANTINE SILVER EARRINGS

Ca. AD 500 - 700. A matched pair of silver hoop earrings, each formed from a plain circular wire hoop threaded with a spherical bead flanked by two small collars. For similar see: A. Bollok, Byzantine Jewellery of the Hungarian Conquest Period: A View from the Balkans, Plate 2. Size: 32-33mm x 29-29mm; Weight: 11.4g Provenance: Private London collection; previously part of a distinguished New York private collection, assembled between 1975 and 1995. The collection was authenticated in the early 1990s by Dr. Jack Ogden and Barbara Deppert Lippitz, leading specialists in ancient jewellery. A significant number of objects from this collection were also published in a professional catalogue..

Estimate:£100

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