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Two-sided plaque or pendant
Roman
Early Christian Period
about A.D. 350
Medium/Technique
Gold and niello
Dimensions
Height: 2.6 cm. length: 2.7 cm.
Credit Line
H. E. Bolles Fund
Accession Number1972.81
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Pendants
DescriptionSide A, hunting scene with a hunter on horseback attaching a boar; Side B, two cupids.
The figures and landscape are done in gold; the background and detail lines are inlaid with niello. The design is framed by gold beading, with the beading on top pierced as though for suspension.
Probably from Gaul or Northern Italy.
The figures and landscape are done in gold; the background and detail lines are inlaid with niello. The design is framed by gold beading, with the beading on top pierced as though for suspension.
Probably from Gaul or Northern Italy.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Bank Leu and Co., Bahnhofstrasse 32, Zurich, Switzerland (from a series of French collections, most recently that of C. Vaudecrane of Le Mans and before that of Julien Chappée, who died in 1957, also of Le Mans); March 8, 1972: purchased by MFA from Bank Leu and Co.