6th-8th century AD. A group of four silver crescent earrings, each with hinged loop; two with inlaid enamel pair of addorsed birds; one with four enamelled annulets; one with applied filigree spirals. See Entwistle, C. & Adams, N., Intelligible Beauty, Recent Research into Byzantine Jewellery, London, 2010, for discussion. 242 grams total including box, 38-42mm (1 1/2"). From a private New York collection; previously in a private London collection, since the 1980s. [4]