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LOT 0530
Etruscan Gold Trumpet-Shaped Earring
CIRCA 350 B.C.
3/4 in. (1.34 grams, 20 mm).
Hollow-formed sheet-gold earring with applied trumpet-shaped finial, filigree collars and beaded wire fillet to the rim. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Parisian dealers including Jean-Phillipe Mariaud de Serres; subsequently dispersed with other pieces at auction.
French private collection of a French lady, acquired in the 1980s.
Accompanied by a copy of an illustrated three page collector's cataloguing document.
Literature
Cf. Marshall, F.H., Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in the Department of Antiquities, British Museum, London, 1911, p.XL.
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