Earring
Italy?
This earring is made of a convex disc and two spiral-twisted gold wires. These wires taper to a point and form the fastening for the hoop. Four granulated gold balls clustered at that bottom of the hoop may represent grapes.
Earliest Rothschild collector: Baron Edmond de Rothschild; b.1845, d.1934
Credit: Gift of Dorothy de Rothschild, 1971
c 200 AD
Gold
8065
Image and text © Waddesdon Manor, 2019
Where you'll find this
Waddesdon Manor
Permanent collection
