2005.108.A-B: Earrings with Three Lion Heads
Jewelry
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2005.108.A-B
- Title
- Earrings with Three Lion Heads
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Pair of Triple Lion-Headed Earrings
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Work Type
- earring
- Date
- c. 300 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, South Italy
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Hellenistic
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/5312
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gold
- Technique
- Cast
- Dimensions
- 2.1 cm (13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Leo Mildenberg, Zurich, (by 2001), sold; [through Christie's, London, October 27, 2004, lot 103], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Roy W. Lennox, David N. Silich, and the Marian H. Phinney Fund
- Accession Year
- 2005
- Object Number
- 2005.108.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Thick hoop earrings consist of spirals of wound wires terminating in three elaborately worked lion heads. A miniature human-headed mask is set between the double lion heads.
Exhibition History
- Hellenistic Art: Objects from an Expanded World, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/03/2006 - 07/29/2007
- 32Q: 3440 Middle East, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 11/16/2016
Verification Level
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