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LOT 0088
Greek Terracotta Statuettes of Robed Children
HELLENISTIC, 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
3 1/2 - 3 3/4 in. (85 grams total, 90-95 mm).
Comprising two figures modelled in the round and dressed in long robes, one of a girl with shoulder-long locks wearing a headdress, one of a boy with a hair knot on top; repaired, some parts absent. [2]
ProvenanceEx E.S., Southern Germany, collected between 1970-1990.
with Helios Numismatik, prior to 2010.
Cf. Higgins, R., Tanagra and the Figurines, Princeton, 1986, figures 171-172, 183-185.
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LOT 0088
Greek Terracotta Statuettes of Robed Children
Estimate £1,800 - 2,400€2,090 - 2,780 (for guidance only)$2,430 - 3,240 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£900 (EUR 1,044; USD 1,215) ‡+BP*
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Greek Gold and Bead Drop Earrings
Hellenistic, 2nd-1st century B.C.Estimate: £7,000 - 9,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £3,500
Matched pair of hooked wire earrings, each with an inset cabochon, articulated dangles and other ornaments. 5.15 grams total, 46 mm each
Private 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.
This 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. -
Villanovan Terracotta Stemmed Bowl with Handle
9th-8th century B.C.Estimate: £180 - 240 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £90
Conical in profile with broad foot and inturned rim; single thick loop handle partly absent. 1.33 kg, 23.5 cm
Ex Prof. Kurt Alder, Riehen; thence by descent. -
Scythian Bronze Roundel with Sea Scroll Pairs
Circa 5th-3rd century B.C.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
With C-shaped round-section staple to the reverse, incised S-scrolls to the obverse forming a decorative design. 32.5 grams, 41 mm
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. Westminster collection, central London, UK
The economical use of curvilinear forms is evidenced elsewhere in Scythian art - for example, in the tattoos on the preserved body of the man from Burial Mound 2 at Pazyryk in the Altai Mountains.
