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Earrings (pair)

600s

Byzantium, early Byzantine period

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Medium
gold, pearls, glass, and emeralds
Measurements
Overall: 10.2 x 4.5 cm (4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.178
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Location
104 Late Antiquity
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This piece of jewelry was worn by a woman in the fashionable courts of Byzantium. Decorated with pearls, glass, and emeralds, these gold earrings are delicate, yet eye-catching. Do you think these chandelier-style earrings would be fashionable today?
A pair of gold earrings features triangular frames of stacked, scalloped arches decorated with small gold spheres. Six cream pearls nestle within the arches. From the base, three pendants dangle with circular glass settings; central pendants feature a pearl above a teardrop emerald, while outer pendants terminate in large pearls. Simple gold wire hooks extend from a circular loop at the top of each earring.

Earrings (pair)

600s

Byzantium, early Byzantine period

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