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LOT 331

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,035

GREEK NIKE GOLD EARRINGS
(Gold, 8.58 grams total, 50 and 52 mm.).

4th-1st century BC. A pair of Hellenistic sheet-gold bifacial earrings depicting the goddess Nike (Victory) advancing with a wreath of laurel leaves in her right hand; on the reverse, the figure shown from behind in less detail; the suspension loop attached to a hook bearing a floral motif. [2]

PROVENANCE:
Ex Gorny & Mosch, Munich, October 2006 lot 649.

LITERATURE:
See Higgins, R.A. Greek & Roman Jewellery, p.165.

CONDITION