Lot 15
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A PAIR OF GREEK GOLD EARRINGS, MAGNA GRAECIA, CIRCA LATE 4TH /EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C. | A Pair of Greek Gold Earrings, Magna Graecia

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • gold
  • Heights 5.7 cm.
each composed of a disk with beaded perimeter centering a repoussé lion mask within a border of beaded scrolling filigree, a small rosette forming the link to the pendant below, each pendant in the form of an inverted pyramid ornamented with globules, filigree leaves, and palmettes, the  biconical finial missing on one earring.

Provenance

Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, and Herbert A. Cahn, Münzen und Medaillen, Basel
acquired from the above by George and Rosemary Lois in 1968

Literature

Andre Emmerich Gallery, Inc. New York, Art of the Ancients: Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, An exhibition  organized in cooperation with Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basle, Switzerland, February 7th-March 13th, 1968, no. 42, illus.
Tribal Art Magazine, vol. XVIII:2, no. 71, Spring 2014, p. 137

Catalogue Note

For a pair of very similar earrings see D. Williams and J. Ogden, Greek Gold, Jewelry of the Classical World, 1994, no. 214, p. 214 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 26.209.1-2). For more elaborate examples compare F.H. Marshall, Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum, 1911, pl. XXX, nos. 1664-1672.