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Large Vintage Earclips in Lion Shape after an Antique Model, 1980s


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Large Vintage Earclips in Lion Shape after an Antique Model, 1980s
Large Vintage Earclips in Lion Shape after an Antique Model, 1980s
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The art and society of antiquity is in many ways foreign and distant to us people of today. Who wanted to watch gladiator games in the circus? At the same time, however, there is a great heritage that still inspires artists today and has an influence on our lives. Individual motifs and forms are encountered again and again through the millennia and thus bear witness to our kinship with the people of ancient Rome and Greece. The pair of earrings here is designed in the form of majestic lions - and goes directly back to jewelry, which were created more than 2300 years ago in Greece! The earrings are designed as ear clips. The heads of the animals with their mighty maidens lie in front of the earlobe. from behind then practical hinged clips press in front of the ear. The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, for example, preserves a pair of earrings made of gold, which proves the relationship of the motifs quite strikingly. Here, too, a lion's head is placed in front of each ear. A broad collar closes the head of the lion to the back, before the abstract body of the animal, formed from ornaments, adjoins. The earrings here are made of high karat gold. Emeralds stud the eyes and the back of the beast. The collar is designed in platinum, Small rose-cut diamonds provide additional light reflections here. The earrings are not signed. Corresponding designs were made, for example, by Ilias Lalaounis in the 1980s. The earrings presented here were probably also made during this time.
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Large Vintage Earclips in Lion Shape after an Antique Model, 1980s
Circle of Life
€ 1,890.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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