8th-10th century AD. A matched pair of silver-gilt temple-rings, each a hoop with coiled wire panels, three hollow bulbs with applied filigree detailing, one with radiating cones. See Entwistle, C. & Adams, N. Intelligible Beauty, Recent Research into Byzantine Jewellery, London, 2010 for discussion. 38 grams total, 48mm each (2"). Property of a European businessman; formerly in a Belgium collection; previously from an old German collection. [2, No Reserve] Fine condition.