Earrings

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Earrings by an unknown artist. Two bronze-colored earrings are shown. Each earring has a top hook with a metal wire loop. The hook part is decorated with small bumps. The main body of each earring is a bronze piece with a rounded triangular shape. The top has small indents. The center contains a circular red stone on the left earring and a teardrop-shaped red stone on the right earring. Each earring has three dangling coins. The coins are bronze and linked to the main body and to each other with small metal loops. The background is white.