Greek Amethyst and Gold Bead Necklace

Modelled in the round wearing a diadem or headdress, either a Kore or Aphrodite, hollow-formed; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. 229 grams, 12 cm (263 grams total, 13.5 cm high including stand)



Acquired in the 1970s. Ex European private collection.

The type belongs to the evolution of the ‘Aphrodite Group’ that was distributed and copied by local workshops in Ionia and the rest of Greece. The figurines of this type are found in sanctuaries of female deities, as well as graves (eg. in Molyvoti). Similar figurines have also been found in Thassos.

From a kylix, the inside painted with two young naked athletes within a medallion, conversing and cleaning their bodies with a strigil, the edge of the medallion decorated with a series of meanders and four crosses; the outside with two naked athletes and other figures, divided by foliage ornaments and volutes. 121 grams, 15.2 cm



Acquired in before 2005. Private collection, Europe. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11805-206818.

The Euaion painter was a prolific artist of about 460 B.C. His painting - already in the manneristic period of the Attic red figures vases - was more nearly classical in style, although the ancestry of his small-headed, slim figures, is very evident. He introduced a high, sometimes patterned ground line for an upright two-figure group, and preferred the old elaborately patterned borders for tondos and the ground lines outside cups.

Graduated designer necklace formed with mainly biconical amethyst beads, spherical gold beads with granule detailing, granulated gold elements, irregular quartz beads and other types; central Phoenician mounted scaraboid in a beaded gold frame; restrung with modern clasp. 45.9 grams, 42.5 cm long



Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.