A PAIR OF BACTRIAN GOLD, GARNET AND GLASS EARRINGS
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Each composed of a complex three-layered rosette centered by a circular garnet rimmed in granulation, each petal filled with fine granulation, the four petals of the bottom layer extending into three projecting cells each set with a garnet, the rims punctuated by discs, interspersed by an arch with bands of granulation terminating in a sheet rosette centered by a circular garnet rimmed in granulation, a hook below supporting a pendant in the form of an amphora on a tiered base, the underside with a cluster of spheres each with an inverted pyramid of granules, the body of the amphora set with circular garnets above drop-shaped garnets, all fringed with granulation, the shoulders with sheet plaques each in the form of Cupid riding a ketos, the wing set with a drop-shaped garnet, four rings below each joined to lengths of loop-in-loop chain terminating in a green glass bead above a tube with back-to-back sheet discs, finished in an inverted pyramid of granules, a hooked ear wire on the reverse
Each: 3¼ in. (8.2 cm.) long

PROVENANCE
with Gallery Nishiyama, Nagoya, 1986.