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LOT 0756
Greek and Later Artefact Collection
3RD CENTURY B.C.-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 - 3 3/4 in. (465 grams total, 33-95 mm).
Including moulded glass vase fragment with standing Herakles figure, oil lamp with dolphin and triton, moulded female bust with earring, and other items. [10]
ProvenancePrivate collection, Switzerland.
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LOT 0756
Greek and Later Artefact Collection
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£180 (EUR 209; USD 243) ‡+BP*
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Large Greek Gold Repoussé Dress Pin with Figural Scenes
Archaic, circa 6th century B.C.Estimate: £5,000 - 7,000 (+bp*)
Bids: 16 | Current Bid: £1,600
Composed of a round-section stem tapering to a point (chipped), the upper section with five figural panels separated by horizontal bands of granulation; each panel with figures executed in granulation including opposed pairs of rearing lions, perching bird, dancing humans, two-headed figure with fronds; below these panels, an applied gold wire loop with recurved end; above, a hollow-formed bulbous finial with a repoussé frieze in two registers: below - winged heroes grappling with gryphons and other beasts in a landscape with granulated detailing, with ropework bands to the equator; above - opposed gryphons flanking a facing master of beasts with head turned, and horsemen advancing towards an anguiped; disc finial to the apex with three repoussé swans in profile. 71.1 grams, 28 cm
Acquired at auction in Geneva or Basel circa 1989. From the private collection of a Swiss gentleman collector, thence by descent 2018. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13409- 259878.
Since Greek clothing was not sewn, straight pins and fibulae (safety pins) were used to fasten a garment at the shoulders, the sleeves, over the chest, and at other critical points. Pins were already in use in the Early Bronze Age, but highly decorated pins were in use from the 7th-6th centuries B.C., when vertical incisions, grooves and mythical figures appeared on the spherical beads, pendants and heads of the pins. Gold pins with disc-shaped terminals and spherical heads have been recovered from the archaic tombs of Macedonia, where the decoration was developed on the surface of the spheres in filigree and repoussé techniques. -
Greek Agate Gemstone with Maenad
Late Hellenistic, 1st century B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £180
Ellipsoid type with intaglio profile female head facing left, with parted lips and face looking slightly upwards, wearing an ivy wreath in a wavy hair bundled at the temple; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 1.25 grams, 12 mm
French art market, 2016. -
Greek Bronze Mirror with Bone Handle
Hellenistic, 3rd-1st century B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Comprising a discoid mirror with concentric rings to one face, a round-section ribbed shaft with triangular mount; tubular bone handle with two incised lines. 205 grams total, 9.2-14 cm
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
