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Description : Circa 3rd Century A.D. With five pendants, each disk-shaped, with embossed sheets set back to back in imitation of an aureus, one side with a portrait, perhaps to be identified as Antoninus Pius (one facing left, one facing right), Caracalla (one facing left, one facing right) and Julia Domna facing right, the other side with a deity driving a quadriga, a standing deity, a reclining figure, a winged Victoria, and a lion, each pendant with an openwork foliate border and a ribbed suspension loop, the pendants threaded on four lengths of doubled loop-in-loop chain and interspersed by four profiled tubes, two of the chains secured to perforations on one edge of a large bead, and two of the chains extend through the beads, their ends crimped together by a thin sheet, the large beads ornamented with scallop shells, pelta shields and heart-shaped motifs 25 in. (63.5 cm) long NOTES For a related necklace in the Walters Art Gallery, said to be from Egypt, see no. 328 in Oliver in Garside, ed., Jewelry, Ancient to Modern . Oliver sites other examples, also said to be from Egypt, one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and one in the Kunsthistorische Museum, and a fourth found in the Hadra cemetery of Alexandria, which confirms the supposed Egyptian provenance of this style of necklace.
Prix: 30 550.00 USD🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire.
Estimations(basse-haute) : 20000 USD-30000 USD🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire.
