Pair of Earrings: MAR.M.296A & B-1912

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Pair of Earrings

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Entities

Earrings

Categories

Jewellery

Description

Gold stylised ram's head terminals. Heads of hollow gold foil. Horns of wire added separately and soldered to the head. Hinged shank of wire, which hooks into the ram's mouth. Suspended from the horns an oval of thick circular section wire; inside this, suspended by looped twisted wire, a pendant in the shape of a jar.

Notes

History note: Unknown before testator

Legal notes

C.B. Marlay Bequest

Measurements and weight

Length: 50.0 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

19th Century, second half#
Circa 1850 CE - 1880 CE

Note

Accessioned as Cypriot, but without evidence for their manufacture there

School or Style

Archaeological Style

Materials used in production

References and bibliographic entries

The Spring Country House Sale page(s): 6-7

Identification numbers

Accession number: MAR.M.296A & B-1912
Primary reference Number: 45897
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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