Two Western Asiatic gold earrings
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Two Western Asiatic gold earrings
Circa late 3rd Millennium B.C.
Of open double boat-shaped form, one slightly larger than the other, with modern ear hooks, 2.2cm and 2.5cm high excl. suspension hook (2)
Provenance:
Reputedly from the Lord McAlpine collection and sold at Sotheby's in the 1980s.
Private collection, UK, acquired in the 1980s.
For similar earrings see K.R. Maxwell-Hyslop, Western Asiatic Jewellery c. 3000-612 B.C., London, 1971, pp. 23-24. pl. 18.
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Two Western Asiatic gold earrings
Circa late 3rd Millennium B.C.
Of open double boat-shaped form, one slightly larger than the other, with modern ear hooks, 2.2cm and 2.5cm high excl. suspension hook (2)
Provenance:
Reputedly from the Lord McAlpine collection and sold at Sotheby's in the 1980s.
Private collection, UK, acquired in the 1980s.
For similar earrings see K.R. Maxwell-Hyslop, Western Asiatic Jewellery c. 3000-612 B.C., London, 1971, pp. 23-24. pl. 18.
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