Pendant, Earring, Jewellery, Jewellery

Ear-pendant. Upper part consists of a hook of gold wire (or gilt bronze?) at the flattened base of which is an inset drop-shape piece of carnelian: at each side of it an S-shaped wire. Below is a loop. Through this and the two loops on the lower part of the pendant is fastened a horizontal piece of wire with a pearl at each end. Lower part consists of a hexagonal bead of emerald-coloured glass in a frame of six flat gold ribs, running vertivally and each having one longitudinal groove. At the lower end of a bunch of four small pearls fastened on a wire running through the whole of the bead. Fototext