Pair of gold earrings with dolphins' heads with emerald, glass, and gold beads

Greek

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 158

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.

Pair of gold earrings with dolphins' heads with emerald, glass, and gold beads, Gold, emerald and banded glass, Greek

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