Loading, please wait...
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.
CONDITIONTimeLine Auctions follows a vetting process to ensure the authenticity and legality of all items, reinforcing our commitment to integrity and responsible trading. Each antiquity, antique, and coin lot undergoes thorough examination by a vetting committee of at least ten external specialists, professional trade association members, scientists, and archaeologists: Our Vetting Process
AUCTIONS:
TimeLine is a leading auction house specialising in antiquities, ancient art, collectables, natural history, coins, medals, and books. Our auctions offer museums, collectors, historians, and enthusiasts the opportunity to acquire unique and historically significant pieces.
-
Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead
Circa 1000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
With broad leaf-shaped blade and tapering socket extending to the midrib; socket pierced to accept attachment pegs; tip absent. 149 grams, 13.6 cm
From a Dunmow, UK, collection; formed from 1970. -
Bronze Age Heavy Gold Spiral Hair Ring
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
A round-section rod coiled and partly flattened to form a hair ornament. 7.45 grams, 15 mm
Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970-2000s. -
Bronze Age Sword Section
Circa 1200-800 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Fragment from the blade of a two-edged slashing sword, lentoid in section and parallel sided. 155 grams, 12.2 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
