circa 3rd century AD
Drop: 5.3 cm
Provenance: Collection of David Backhouse, London, UK, acquired 1970s
Large gold openwork discs with foliate cutouts and scalloped edges, a rectangular recess in the centre of each may have held a stone inlay now missing. Beneath the discs an openwork design resembling the Egyptian wedjat eye symbol from which hang three long drop pendants, each with a cabochon garnet at the centre of a floral motif and pearl suspended below. Shepherds hooks soldered to the cross support on the reverse of each convex disc.
Condition: Intact; hooks possibly ancient.
Literature: For a very similar example from the period, see B. Deppert-Lippitz, 'Ancient Gold Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art' (Dallas, 1996), fig. 102, p. 146.
circa 3rd century AD
Drop: 5.3 cm
Provenance: Collection of David Backhouse, London, UK, acquired 1970s
Large gold openwork discs with foliate cutouts and scalloped edges, a rectangular recess in the centre of each may have held a stone inlay now missing. Beneath the discs an openwork design resembling the Egyptian wedjat eye symbol from which hang three long drop pendants, each with a cabochon garnet at the centre of a floral motif and pearl suspended below. Shepherds hooks soldered to the cross support on the reverse of each convex disc.
Condition: Intact; hooks possibly ancient.
Literature: For a very similar example from the period, see B. Deppert-Lippitz, 'Ancient Gold Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art' (Dallas, 1996), fig. 102, p. 146.
