Description
A simple, lightweight gold earring composed of a crossbar, two pendant pearls, and a small disk partially concealing the ear wire, of a type found in great quantity among the ruins of Pompeii.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
12/14/1978
Examination
examined for condition
Exhibitions
Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5132]; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.
Credit
Museum purchase [formerly part of the Walters Collection], 1941
