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LOT 0492

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]

Provenance

Acquired 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.

Literature

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 0492

Etruscan Bronze Pendant Group

Sold for (Inc. bp): £351

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