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LOT 0096
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 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 0096
Greek Gold and Bead Drop Earrings
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000€8,120 - 10,440 (for guidance only)$9,450 - 12,150 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£3,500 (EUR 4,060; USD 4,725) ‡+BP*
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Greek Bronze Patera Handle in the form of a Naked Youth
5th century B.C.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,000
Formed as a nude kouros, hands raised to touch the elaborate palmette sitting atop the boy's head, his face framed by a thick fringe, his hair, held by a band, falling down his back in serpentine waves; the figure standing with legs held close together, broken at mid-shin; a palmette-shaped fixing plate projecting at the back with two holes for rivets to attach to the broad, shallow dish which would have been used for libations. 178 grams total, handle: 17.3 cm high, 23.5 cm high including stand
Private collection UK (N.E.), acquired prior to 1970, and thence by descent. Accompanied by an Art Loss Register certificate, no.S00058231 This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13550-263433.
Anthropomorphic handles with images of young naked boys connected with animals were widespread and used for mirrors. The object, in particular, is part of the group of mirrors and paterae with standing youths (male and female, probably symbolising athletes) and nude female mirror caryatids (Mitten-Doeringer, 1968, figs.87-88) serving as vertical handles. -
Greek Red-Figure Lekythos
Attic, 5th century B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £800
Squat lekythos with a highly detailed depiction of a woman running to the right, holding a torch and a decorated box, the head turned backwards. 102 grams, 11.5 cm
Property of an European gentleman, acquired before 2005 in Cologne. -
Greek Macedonian Gold Diadem Leaf
Hellenistic, 3rd century B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Bids: 5 | Current Bid: £30
Triangular in plan with twisted stem to the apex, radiating vein detailing; mounted in a glazed wooden frame with legend. 417 grams total, 26 x 19.6 cm including frame
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
