" Pair Of Gold Penannular Earrings. Bronze Age."
Pair of penannular gold earrings. Bronze Age, (Minoan?)
Solid gold, ca 1200 BC.
30 x 28 mm approximately - 8.47 g.
Splendid square-section earrings made from a solid hammered gold rod.
Superb piece of jewelry whose purity and sobriety of lines are very modern.
Parallels:
A similar gold earring: Christie's Fine Antiquities sale, April 23, 1980, lot no. 65.
The Met Museum for a Minoan bronze earring (26.31.464).
Provenance: - Galerie Cybèle, Paris. - Marché de l'Art, France.
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