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LOT 0517
Etruscan Carnelian Scarab with Sphinx in Later Victorian Silver Mount
5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
1 3/8 in. (5.12 grams, 36 mm).
Naturalistically carved scarab on an oval base engraved with a leaping sphinx, set in a later silver brooch mount.
ProvenanceAcquired on the European art market.
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LOT 0517
Etruscan Carnelian Scarab with Sphinx in Later Victorian Silver Mount
Estimate £350 - 450€410 - 520 (for guidance only)$470 - 610 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£175 (EUR 203; USD 236) +BP*
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Opening Bid: £81
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Greek Glass Head of an African Male
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Opening Bid: £50
Moulded in the round in black glass with short hair, casting seam around the edges. 1.57 grams, 17 mm
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Greek Terracotta Toy Bowl
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Broad and squat with low foot, inturned rim; chipped; old collector's record card with label to reverse '0892'. 29.4 grams, 53 mm wide
From the collection of the late Bernard C. Pickard, Hampshire, UK, the owner of Bernard C. Pickard Antiquities, which closed in 1987, he had been collecting since the mid 1950s. Accompanied by a typed information display card.
Bernard Pickard was a close friend of Richard Hattatt, the renowned author of several books on ancient brooches. Hattatt acknowledges in his first book, Ancient & Romano-British Brooches, published in 1982, that Mr Pickard first aroused his interest in brooches and inspired him in writing his books during his retirement. Mr Pickard also wrote the foreword to the section on Roman animal brooches, op. cit. p.158-160.
