Pair of Germanic gold earrings

V century
Danube region

Gold frame 14-facet bead set with glass in 4 facets of each. Hoop of solid wire tapers at one end and is attached to a polyhedral bead through ring of granulation.
1.5” (4.1 cm).

For similar earrings see: Brown K. From Attila to Charlemagne. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, p. 21, p.108 fig.10.7; Wamers E. Archäologische Reihe Schmuck des frühen Mittelalters im Frankfurter Museum für Vor-und Frühgeschichte. Frankfurt am Main, 1986, cat. 46; Ross M. C. Catalog of the Byzantine and Early Medieval Antiquities in The Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Washington, D.C., 1965, vol. II, cat. 166-E; Herzog R., Koller A. Die Alamannen. Stuttgart, 1997, p.252.