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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 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 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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Parthian Terracotta Vessel Collection
2nd century B.C.-2nd century A.D.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising: squat jat with painted rings and ropework to the shoulder (repaired); shallow dish with painted rings to the rim; biconvex vessel. 402 grams total, 8.2-11.4 cm
Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. -
Greek Terracotta Black-Figure Pyxis with Chariot
Attic, 6th century B.C.Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £16,667
Squat vessel with rounded foot and carination with band of tendrils, flared sidewall with carination and rim, broad watchglass lid with central knop handle; blackware frieze to the sidewall, chariot with four horses and attendants carrying spears and dressed in chitons and himatia, among them a noblewoman dressed in a long chiton and chlamys; lid with frieze of profile figures seated on folding chairs with attendants and petitioners, and two women in long robes within a band of coiled tendrils; repaired and restored. 1.05 kg, 22.5 cm wide
Private collection, Mrs Lambelet, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, acquired before 1972; thence by descent. Private collection N.S., acquired in 2012. 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.13223-249242.
Many Athenian vases depict a quadriga, often in racing or military scenes, but in this case, the depicted scene is peaceful and could be linked to a wedding. The painting can be divided into two scenes: the first, on the sides, is the bridal procession, where the bride is conducted in the chariot, which will bring her to the groom, accompanied by her father and relatives; the second, the lid painting, is where the nuptial feast is prepared, and the conversing guests are waiting for the bride. -
Graeco-Persian Chalcedony Scaraboid with Leaping Calf
5th-4th century B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £135
Carved from translucent stone with a dome profile, pierced longitudinally, underside with a calf leaping to right. 5.7 grams, 23 mm
with H.A.C. AG, Basel, until 1999.
