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LOT 0549
Etruscan Bronze Pendant Group
CIRCA 8TH CENTURY B.C.
3 in. (90 grams total, 78 mm each).
Comprising three pendant clusters, each a tube with balustered middle section and ribs, radiating loops at the lower end with suspended biconvex dangles. [3]
ProvenanceAcquired in the late 1970s.
Ex Herr Bernhard Muller collection.
with Galerie Ostracon, circa 2015.
Accompanied by detailed collector's catalogue pages including description and photograph.
Cf. Turfa, J.M., Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, 2005, p.126, no.70.
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LOT 0549
Etruscan Bronze Pendant Group
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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