158 PAIR OF OSTROGOTHIC GOLD AND GARNET EARRINGS centering a polyhedral bead inset with square and triangular garnets. Earlier 5th Century AD. Diam. 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm.); wt. 15.6 gr. Ex private European collection acquired in the 1990s. 159 PAIR OF BYZANTINE GOLD CRESCENT EARRINGS decorated with applied filigree. 6th-9th Century AD. L. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm.) Ex German collection. 160 BYZANTINE GOLD CIRCULAR OPENWORK PENDANT, designed as six cross rosettes around a central cross rosette, each of different design; a double loop for suspension. 6th-7th Century AD. Diam. 2 in. (5.1 cm.); wt: 24 gr. Ex Y. Saidnian collection, London and Jerusalem, acquired before 1960. Cf. “Byzantium 330-1453”, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exposition catalogue 2007, pp. 167, 172-173, 409-410, nos. 119 et 126.
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