Ritual + Culture / A JAVANESE GOLD RAM-FORM EARRING INDONESIA, 10TH-15TH CENTURY
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A JAVANESE GOLD RAM-FORM EARRING
2.5 cm high
10.475 g
Footnotes
A delicately cast and incised gold U-shaped ram-form ear ornament. The pointed vegetal forms see on this ear ornament were popular in the Early Classic Period. (Miksic, 2011)
References
Miksic, J. (2011). Old Javanese gold. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York acc. no. 1998.544.132, 1998.544.67a, b
Metmuseum.org. (2019). [online] Available at: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49965?&searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&where=Indonesia&what=Gold&ft=*&offset=240&rpp=80&pos=317