Pair of gold earrings with dolphins' heads with emerald, glass, and gold beads
The careful modeling of the dolphin heads is done in repoussé and chasing. The hollow gold bodies are filled with a hard white core. The beads are of emerald, gold, and banded glass, collared by rings of gold granules. The hoops have a wire frame, on which the beads are also strung and around which four wires are spirally wound. The ends of the frames hook into loops below the dolphin jaws.
Artwork Details
- Title: Pair of gold earrings with dolphins' heads with emerald, glass, and gold beads
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: 2nd–1st century BCE
- Culture: Greek
- Medium: Gold, emerald and banded glass
- Dimensions: Overall: 1 1/2 x 3/8 x 1 3/8in. (3.8 x 1 x 3.5cm)
- Classification: Gold and Silver
- Credit Line: Gift of Christos G. Bastis, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 1995
- Object Number: 1995.539.10a, b
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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