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LOT 0073
Hellenistic Carnelian Bead with Gold End Caps
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
2 3/8 in. (17.44 grams, 60 mm).
Columnar bead with sheet-gold cap to each end, each with beaded circlets and applied granule clusters, domed end with loop; possibly assembled.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
Cf. a pair of gold disc and sphere-drop earrings of the Late Hellenistic Period in a similar style and decoration, in Ogden, J., Gold Jewellery in Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt, in two volumes, Volume 2 – figures, Durham, 1990, fig.268.
FootnotesThe very elaborate versions of earrings with large domes and pendants composed of clusters of hollow spheres and granulation are most typically Romano-Syrian, but they begin to be produced in the Late Hellenistic Age. They were diffused in the Levant, Egypt and on the frontier area between the Roman and the Arsacid Empire.
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LOT 0073
Hellenistic Carnelian Bead with Gold End Caps
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£333 (EUR 387; USD 450) ‡+BP*
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Etruscan Agate Talismanic Scarab
Late 4th-early 3rd century B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
Carved from banded orange agate and formed as a flattened scarab with a striated carapace, pierced for suspension. 3.53 grams, 18 mm
UK private collection, acquired on the English market in the 2000s.
The shape of an Etruscan scarab includes: (1) the scarab gem, where the engraving of the curved back of the stone more or less faithfully imitates the anatomical parts of the scarab beetle; (2) the scaraboid, which retains the overall shape of the scarab gem but with little or no engraving on the curved backside; and (3) the pseudo-scarab, which has an image carved in relief on its curved backside instead of a beetle. All three types have a flat, oval underside which carries an engraved miniature image (device) within a decorated border which is usually hatched. -
Greek Terracotta Head Collection
Circa 4th-2nd century B.C.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising four head fragments, one fragment of the upper torso of a male, and a bird fragment. 116 grams total, 37-72 mm
From the collection of a Cambridge, UK, gentleman, by direct descent from his father, who acquired the items in London in circa 1960. -
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Circa 5th century B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
L-shaped bracket with a leaping fox, the beast with an elongated muzzle and swept-back ears. 46.7 grams, 62 mm
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.
