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LOT 0297
Large Bronze Age Spectacle Brooch
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
6 in. (207 grams, 15.3 cm).
Formed as two large tightly-wound coils with figure-of-eight-shaped intermediate coils, similar verso with pin absent.
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureCf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 37.11.18, for a very similar item.
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