6th-4th century BC. A large matched pair of openwork crescent earrings, each a crescent plaque with granulated border and radiating triangles of granulation surrounded by a band of ten spheres, each with granulation to four sides, a band of coiled spring and an outer band of gold spheres; to the bottom, three suspension hoops with three hollow seed-like pendants, ribbed to the lower half and with granule clusters to the apices; the clasp a bar with annular terminals. Cf. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 1995.180a, b for similar type. 32 grams, 8cm (3"). Property of a London gentleman; previously acquired on the UK art market in the 1990s. [2] Fine condition; one pendant with incomplete hook.