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LOT 0100
Greek Gold Earrings with Female Heads
HELLENISTIC, 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
1 - 1 1/8 in. (5.93 grams total, 25-28 mm).
Each a hollow-formed female head with stephane to the brow, granulated collars flanking biconvex bulbs, tapering twisted shank curved to meet the gussetted loop above the head. [2]
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Marshall, F.H., Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in the Department of Antiquities, British Museum, London, 1911, item 1706, for type.
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