A GOLD HINGED EARCLIP, JAVA, 10TH-15TH CENTURY

A GOLD HINGED EARCLIP, JAVA, 10TH-15TH CENTURY, of quatrefoil design finely decorated with cannetille and pellet work in yellow gold, depth 2cm, weight 8.9g

Provenance:
The property of Mrs. Agnes Van Gessler Verschuir, wife of Mr. Peter Rudolf Wolter van Gessler Verschuir, Governor of Yogyakarta, Java from 1929 to 1932, and thence by descent

Cf. a closely comparable earclip in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Samuel Eilenberg-Jonathan P. Rosen Collection of Indonesian Gold, 1998.544.64