♔Property frꦏom the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection

A pair of go𝓀ld repoussé 'Makara and human figure' earrings set with g⛎reen glass beads

Pre-Khmer, 8th century

雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品

八世紀 前高棉時期 摩羯神像紋金耳飾一對

Each earring contains tiny pellets as a rattle and takes the form of a Makara, a hybrid figure combining an elephant with a crocodile in one body. The elephant trunk forms♉ the ear hook with the body and head of a crocodile, a human figure caught in its jaws trying to escape. 

Tℱhis motif reflects an iconographic transmission of Indian mythological representations and appears frequently in Khmer sculpture.

3.1 cm; 18 grams