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LOT 0124
Greek Gold and Bead Drop Earrings
HELLENISTIC, 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
1 3/4 in. (5.15 grams total, 46 mm each).
Matched pair of hooked wire earrings, each with an inset cabochon, articulated dangles and other ornaments. [2]
ProvenancePrivate American collection, 1970s-1980s.
with Robert Haber, New York, USA, circa 1990s.
Private collection, Europe.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate, 8 September 2004.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13187-249264.
See Ogden, J.M., Gold Jewellery in Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt, 2 vols., PhD thesis, Durham, 1990, V.2, fig.69, for a similar Hellenistic pair.
FootnotesThis pair belongs to the Hellenistic group of earrings with pendants, a broad group including pendants shaped as amphorae, birds, erotes and other exotic elements. Most of them come from sites around the Aegean or the Eastern Mediterranean and were probably produced in workshops in these regions. They usually date from the 2nd to the 1st centuries B.C.
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LOT 0124
Greek Gold and Bead Drop Earrings
Estimate £8,000 - 10,000€9,280 - 11,600 (for guidance only)$10,800 - 13,500 (for guidance only)
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