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Earrings with Three Lion Heads
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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Leo Mildenberg Zurich (by 2001) sold; [through Christie's London October 27 2004 lot 103] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums 2005.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Purchase through the generosity of Roy W. Lennox David N. Silich and the Marian H. Phinney Fund
Title: Earrings with Three Lion Heads
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.
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