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Lot 133

A pair of Roman gold earrings
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28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A pair of Roman gold earrings
Circa 2nd Century A.D.
Each with an oval agate cameo head of Medusa within a gold rimmed mount, with a garnet cabochon and a droplet shaped cameo carved with a winged Eros below, 3.5cm and 3.8cm long (2)

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Provenance:
C. W. collection, Appenzell, Switzerland.
Anonymous sale; J.-D. Cahn AG, Basel, auction no. 5, 23 September, 2005, lot no. 227.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York (Art of the Ancient World, 2007, no. 173).
Private collection, England, acquired from the above in 2008.

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