A garnet and enamel choker by Natalia Josca

A garnet and enamel choker by Natalia Josca, the three twisted gold bands with green enamel flower heads, to a central woven Herakles knot with green enamel flower heads and a circular cabochon garnet, with a pin clasp, engraved NJ and 22K, 9cm diameter, 80g gross

Copied from an Hellenistic Greek gold diadem, dating to the 3rd Century AD, illustrated in Hugh Tait, Seven Thousand Years of Jewellery, (British Museum, 1986), fig.186 (opp. p. 85) and Dyfri Williams and Jack Ogden, Greek Gold: Jewelry of the Classical World, (Harry N. Abrams, 1994), pp. 64-65

From the collection of Natalia Josca