LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: earrings

Pair of Earrings (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 2nd-3rd century Culture: Roman Category: Jewelry Medium: gold Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall (each): 1 3/4 × 1 5/8 in. (4.45 × 4.13 cm) Object Number: 83.153.1-2 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-15639981

Pair of Earrings (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 2nd-3rd century Culture: Roman Category: Jewelry Medium: gold Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall (each): 1 3/4 × 1 5/8 in. (4.45 × 4.13 cm) Object Number: 83.153.1-2 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-15639981

Title: Earrings with Pendant Nikai Artist/Maker: Unknown Culture: Greek Place: Italy (?) Europe Eastern Mediterranean (?) (Place created) Date: about 225–175 B.C. Medium: Gold with glass Object Number: 96.AM.159 Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Alternate Titles: Earrings with Nike Pendants (Display Title) Object Type: Earring Flying figures of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, form the main decoration of these Hellenistic gold earrings. The goddess appears with spread wings and wind-swept drapery, holding a flaming torch, in two figures that are mirror images of one another. Each tiny figure is hollow, made from two joined sheets of gold that were formed in a mold. Earrings in the form of a U-shaped hook with a rosette disk and a pendant figure were one of the most popular types in the Hellenistic period. On this pair, the rosette is particularly ornate, decorated with filigree, granulation, and a central glass bead. Originally the earrings were vividly colored and encrusted with stones, the compartments in the wings were filled with colored enamel, the flame of the torch was also enameled or set with a semi-precious stone, and the center of the acanthus crowning the rosette probably held a garnet. Nike earrings were most popular in the period from the late 300s to early 200s B.C. Stylistic and technical features of this pair, however, indicate that they were made in the late 200s or early 100s B.C. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29630/unknown-maker-earrings-with-pendant-nikai-greek-about-225-175-bc

Title: Earrings with Pendant Nikai Artist/Maker: Unknown Culture: Greek Place: Italy (?) Europe Eastern Mediterranean (?) (Place created) Date: about 225–175 B.C. Medium: Gold with glass Object Number: 96.AM.159 Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Alternate Titles: Earrings with Nike Pendants (Display Title) Object Type: Earring Flying figures of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, form the main decoration of these Hellenistic gold earrings. The goddess appears with spread wings and wind-swept drapery, holding a flaming torch, in two figures that are mirror images of one another. Each tiny figure is hollow, made from two joined sheets of gold that were formed in a mold. Earrings in the form of a U-shaped hook with a rosette disk and a pendant figure were one of the most popular types in the Hellenistic period. On this pair, the rosette is particularly ornate, decorated with filigree, granulation, and a central glass bead. Originally the earrings were vividly colored and encrusted with stones, the compartments in the wings were filled with colored enamel, the flame of the torch was also enameled or set with a semi-precious stone, and the center of the acanthus crowning the rosette probably held a garnet. Nike earrings were most popular in the period from the late 300s to early 200s B.C. Stylistic and technical features of this pair, however, indicate that they were made in the late 200s or early 100s B.C. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29630/unknown-maker-earrings-with-pendant-nikai-greek-about-225-175-bc

Roman Articulated doll, 4th century A.D. Bone with gold earrings h. 10.7 cm., w. 3.5 cm., d. 3.3 cm. (4 3/16 x 1 3/8 x 1 5/16 in.) Gift of Gillett G. Griffin 2002-30 Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/40750

Pair of gold earrings with colored beads Period: Hellenistic Date: 3rd century B.C. Culture: Greek Medium: Gold Dimensions: H.: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm) Classification: Gold and Silver Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1921 Accession Number: 21.88.5, .6 Description: These earrings are a variation of the disk and pendant type that began in the sixth century B.C. and enjoyed popularity throughout the Greek world during the Hellenistic period. Here the disk has been modified into a pediment shape, and the pendants are in the form of female heads. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300...

Gold Half Moon-Shaped Earring with Peacocks Byzantine Made 500-700 Accession # 38.171.1 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Gold Earrings with Pearls and Sapphires Byzantine, found in 1902 at Karavas, Cyprus Made 500-700 Accession # 17.190.145, .146 These elegant earrings are decorated with pearls, a favorite jewel of the Byzantines. Sapphires, then called hyakinthoi (hyacinths), became popular in Byzantine jewelry in the sixth century. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Earring (one of a pair) Date: 6th–7th century Culture: Byzantine Medium: Gold, pearls Dimensions: Overall: 3 1/4 x 1 1/4 x 1/4 in. (8.3 x 3.1 x 0.7 cm) ring: 1 in. (2.5 cm) Classification: Metalwork-Gold Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 Accession Number: 17.190.1665 Description: Earrings like these are found throughout the Byzantine world. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1700... and Earring (one of a pair) Date: 6th–7th century Culture: Byzantine Medium: Gold, pearls Dimensions: Overall: 3 1/4 x 1 1/4 x 1/4 in. (8.3 x 3.2 x 0.7 cm) ring: 1 in. (2.5 cm) Classification: Metalwork-Gold Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 Accession Number: 17.190.1666 Description: Earrings like these are found throughout the Byzantine world. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1700...

A Pair of Royal Earrings, ca. 1st century B.C. probably Andhra Pradesh, India Gold; Each H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W. 3 in. (7.6 cm); L. 1 9/16 in. (4 cm) Gift of The Kronos Collections, 1981 (1981.398.3–.4) The place of these earrings in the history of Indian art is assured, not only for their intrinsic beauty but also because of the light they shed on the superb quality of goldsmithing early in this region. Early Indian statues of both male and female figures were usually portrayed wearing elaborate jewelry that sometimes seemed fanciful, since very little comparable jewelry from that period survives. The discovery of this pair of earrings provided the first tangible evidence that the jewelry depicted by sculptors was in fact based on real models, for a very similar pair is shown on a first century B.C. relief portrait of a "Universal Ruler" (chakravartin), from Jaggayapeta. These earrings, judging from their material worth, excellence of craftsmanship, and use of royal emblems (a winged lion and an elephant) as part of their design, were most probably made as royal commissions. Each earring is composed of two rectangular, budlike forms growing outward from a central, double-stemmed tendril. The elephant and the lion of repoussé gold are consummately detailed, using granules, snippets of wire and sheet, and individually forged and hammered pieces of gold. The two pieces are not exactly identical: on the underside they are both decorated with a classical early Indian design of a vase containing three palmettes, but the patterning of the fronds differentiates them. They are so large and heavy that they must have distended the earlobes and rested on the shoulders of the wearer, like the pair worn by the "Universal Ruler." Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=6&view...

Pair of Gold Earrings with Four Relief Faces Phoenician, late 4th-3rd century BC Accession # 1999.289.6a,b Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Pair of Gold Spiral Earrings with Lion-Griffin Terminals Greek, ca. 400-350 BC Accession # 74.51.3372-.3373 Part of the Cesnola Collection. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Pair of Gold Earrings with a Disk and Eros Greek, ca. 300 BC Accession # 30.116.1-.2 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Gold Earrings Etruscan, 4th- early 3rd century BC Accession # 18.103.3, .4 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.