The Metropolitan Museum of Art Jeweled Snake 14K Gold-Plated Sterling Silver Bracelet
195,00 USD
Description
Art jewelry makes a unique gift for her. The serpentine elegance of our bracelet is informed by a Roman-period Egyptian gold bracelet (1st century CE) in the form of a coiled snake. Bracelets with animals, including snakes, appeared in western Asia as far back as the 8th century BCE and spread to Greece (where the snake possessed healing associations, among others) in the 5th century BCE before arriving in Egypt, where examples of serpentine jewelry were crafted throughout the Ptolemaic (332-30 BCE) and Roman (ca. 30 BCE-330 CE) periods.