Two Roman Gold Necklaces, circa 2nd/3rd century A.D.

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Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Two Roman Gold Necklaces

circa 2nd/3rd century A.D.

each composed of a loop-in-loop chain, one with small emerald pendant embraced by a crescentic openwork clasp with radiating spirals, the other with a gadrooned pomegranate-form pendant and domed clasp.

Lengths 40.4 cm. and 37.3 cm.

Thomas P. Miller, executive assistant at The Cloisters, New York, acquired in Palermo in 1965

Dr. James D. Blackburn, Birmingham, Alabama, acquired from the above in 1990

then by descent to the present owner

For a related example in the British museum, see accession no. 1850,0601.3, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1850-0601-3.

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