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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 8115180, member: 120820&quot;][ATTACH=full]1412250[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d previously filed away a picture of this pendant from the Louvre. It features a central medallion of Constantine I made in Sirmium 321 AD (dated by a consular reverse of his sons Crispus and Constantine II), combined with these impressive repousse miniature busts, and laboriously executed openwork lattice.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s also a similar hexagonal one in the British Museum ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412251[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I only just came across yet another from the Cleveland Museum of Art, this time with two spacers and a jeweled clasp, and finally read the description that ties all these together. It seems these are all from the same piece of jewellery, which consisted of this octagonal Cleveland piece (slightly larger than the rest), two circular pieces and two hexagonal ones. The other circular one is in the Dumbarton Oaks collection. One of the hexagonal pieces appears to either be lost or location unknown. They all contain a central medallion of the exact same type, but from differing dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412252[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Just for fun I&#039;ve combined photos of all these pieces (duplicating the BM one) to show what it would have looked like. This must have been a gift for someone at the very highest level.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412253[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The openwork designs on these are mostly very similar, but not exact matches. The Dumbarton Oaks piece stands out as oddly crude compared to the others - it has the exact same repousse figures, but the openwork design is simplistic and omits the heart-shaped elements of the others. It&#039;s hard to explain this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post anything related.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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