Gold crescent-shaped earring
Description: | Cresent earrings are developed from the symmetrical hoop-type by expanding the body into a flat cresent-shaped plate. This is usually plain but sometimes decorated with borders of plain or twisted wire, minute balls like the early granular work, with filigree designs, cloisons for enamel or paste gems, or with a fringe of beads attached by wire hoops. Cresent earrings are developed from the symmetrical hoop-type by expanding the body into a flat cresent-shaped plate. These earrings are most likely Roman. Other: 1 in. (2.5 cm) |
Period: | Classical |
Date: | 499 BC - 99 AD |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | From Cyprus |
References: | Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 3870, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.3870 |