Lot 8B
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Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A beautiful ancient Roman bracelet comprised of finely crafted gold links and garnet beads - the gold links forming traditional figure-eight forms and the wine red garnets perfect hand-cut into circular discs. A truly stunning example of ancient Roman's taste for refined jewelry! Size: 8.25" L (21 cm); garnet beads measure .25" in diameter (0.6 cm)
The women of the Roman Empire donned a wide assortment of jewelry. We know this to be true, because elite Roman women were laid to rest in sarcophagi painted with encaustic funerary portraits that depicted the deceased as youthful beauties dressed in refined clothing and bejeweled in elaborate necklaces and earrings. In addition, the sculpted stone portraits of the caravan city of Palmyra in Syria show the deceased donning jewelry, no doubt indicating their wealth and high social status for all eternity.
Provenance: private Connecticut, USA collection; acquired at Christie's, Online "Ancient Jewelry: Wearable Art" auction (sale 16396, November 29 - December 6, 2018, lot 42); ex-private American collection, acquired in 2010; ex-private North American collection, acquired in 1986; ex-Numismatic Art & Ancient Coins, Zurich, Switzerland, acquired on the New York art market in 1985; ex-Burton Y. Berry (1901-1985) collection, Zurich, Switzerland
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Condition:
Only a few minute (nearly invisible) nicks to peripheries of some beads. Some deposits visible on the beads. Gold links and garnets are ancient, with a modern hook and loop closure.
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