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LOT 0490
Greek Silver Ring with Seated Goddess Holding a Dove
HELLENISTIC, 4TH-2ND CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (6.35 grams, 23.20 mm overall, 19.55 x 12.60 mm internal diameter (approximate size British I, USA 4 1/4, Europe 7.44, Japan 7)).
Featuring a round-section hoop and a large oval bezel with a seated goddess holding a dove with open wings. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
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LOT 0490
Greek Silver Ring with Seated Goddess Holding a Dove
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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From the collection of the late Bernard C. Pickard, Hampshire, UK, the owner of Bernard C. Pickard Antiquities, which closed in 1987, he had been collecting since the mid 1950s. Accompanied by a typed information display card.
Bernard Pickard was a close friend of Richard Hattatt, the renowned author of several books on ancient brooches. Hattatt acknowledges in his first book, Ancient & Romano-British Brooches, published in 1982, that Mr Pickard first aroused his interest in brooches and inspired him in writing his books during his retirement. Mr Pickard also wrote the foreword to the section on Roman animal brooches, op.cit. p.158-160.
