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LOT 0211

Roman Gold 'Bunched Grape' Jewellery Set

1ST CENTURY A.D.

1 - 1 1/4 in. (8.83 grams total, 24-32 mm).

Group of three gold pendants comprising: two formed as a cluster of granules with three lobes, larger granule to each apex and coiled wire suspension; one of similar profile, larger with filigree lines and coils to both faces, trumpet-shaped finial with loop; repaired; housed in a custom-made display case. [3]

Provenance

Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
Important North West London collection.

Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11934-210479.

Literature

See De Ridder, Les bijoux et les pierres gravées, Paris, 1911, no.568, pl.2, 572, pl.3; Pollak, L., Klassisch-Antike Goldschmiedearbeiten im Besitze Sr. Exc. des Herrn von Nelidow in Rom, Leipzig, 1903, no.74, pl.8 (similar, late Hellenistic, with heads of Maenads); Piatischewa, ‘Juwelirnie Isdelija Chersonesa (Jewelry of Chersonesos)’ in TGIM Pamjatniki Kulturi, 18, 1956, p.49, pl,8, 11.11a; Greifenhagen, A., Schmuckarbeiten in Edelmetall, Banden I-II, Berlin, 1970, band II, no.4, p.66.

Footnotes

Typologically related earrings were particularly common in the Caucasus, where they have been dated by archaeologists to the first centuries A.D. This was a product of Hellenised workers of the area of Pontus or Asia Minor, mainly, and the material culture of the Greek cities of the North Pontus region was completely absorbed by their new Roman rulers and largely diffused in style and orientation in the Eastern Roman provinces.

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LOT 0211

Roman Gold 'Bunched Grape' Jewellery Set

Estimate £5,000 - 7,000€5,800 - 8,120 (for guidance only)$6,750 - 9,450 (for guidance only)

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