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Earrings with polyhedral beads

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Gothic or Early Byzantine
ca. 600
Gold, glass
hoops: 70 and 72 mm, diameter; beads: 29 and 30 mm, width
Thaw Collection
2012.2:62a,b
Provenance: 
Private collection, Europe, 1980; sale, Christie's, New York, 11 December 2003, lot 515; from which acquired by Eugene V. Thaw, New York and Santa Fe.
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Period: 
Gothic
Century: 
7th century
Classification: 
Object
Department: 
Drawings and Prints