One of a Pair of Crescent-Shaped Earrings with Rosettes
These earrings combine diverse artistic features-Byzantine (cloisonné enamel decoration), Kyivan Rus' (enameling in segments), and Islamic (boxlike construction)-suggesting that the artist had knowledge of several traditions. The earrings have lost their suspension loops.
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