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LOT 0494
Italic Silver Wire Fibula
CIRCA 700-600 B.C.
3/4 - 4 7/8 in. (9.11 grams total, 1.8-12.4 cm).
With a coiled spring and lateral lugs; tapering shank, and separate ring. [3]
ProvenancePrivate collection, Switzerland, 1992.
Thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
Cf. similar complete example in the BM, inv.no.1872,0604.912, in Walters, H.B., Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan, London, 1899, no.2046, for a complete specimen of the typology.
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LOT 0494
Italic Silver Wire Fibula
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£100 (EUR 116; USD 135) ‡+BP*
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Large Greek Terracotta Figure of a Kore
6th century B.C.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,222
Hollow-formed with scaphoid headdress, long hair hanging behind the shoulders, heavy peplos dress extending to the floor with splayed hem and feet visible beneath; left hand held straight at the thigh, right hand in a fist between the breasts; mounted on a custom-made stand. 6.7 kg total, 57 cm including stand
Swiss private collection, assembled in the 1970s-1980s. with Galerie Serodine, Ascona, Switzerland, 1993. Collection of Dr E.N., Zug, acquired in 1995. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12858-241755.
One of the most typical 6th century B.C. terracotta female figurine was that of a standing or seated woman wearing a chiton tunic and a himation over it. It was a votive figure offered to the shrines or temples, usually representing the goddess Demeter. The headgear polos on the head was in fact an element usually identifying the goddess Demeter or her daughter Persephone. Attica was one of the principal centres of figurine production, but Corinth continued to produce solid standing or seated females with moulded fronts and flat backs. -
Greek Terracotta Multi-Spouted Oil Lamp
Circa 2nd-1st century B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
An annular oil lamp with three nozzles and a filler hole to the rear, an inked collector's note '423' on the underside. 513 grams, 16.6 cm
From an important collection of lamps, Germany, 1970s. -
Greek Terracotta Spindle Flask
Hellenistic, late 2nd-1st century B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
With long narrow neck developing to a fusiform body and flared foot. 72 grams, 12 cm
From the collection of a Cambridge, UK, gentleman, by direct descent from his father, who acquired the items in London in circa 1960.
