CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

A GREEK GOLD FINGER RING
CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
¾ in. (1.9 cm.) long; ring size 5

Provenance

with Mohammed Yeganeh, Frankfurt.
Otto Wittmann (1911-2001), Director of The Toledo Museum of Art from 1938-1978, acquired from the above and gifted to his wife, Margaret Wittmann, 1975; thence by descent to the current owner.

Lot Essay

Engraved on the bezel of this fine gold ring is a winged Artemis, wearing a short chiton and high boots, holding her bow out before her. Artemis is frequently depicted winged in the Archaic period, and only rarely in later periods (see for example on a red-figured oinochoe by the Dutuit Painter, circa 470 B.C., in the Petit Palais, Paris, no. 618 in L. Kahil, "Artemis," in LIMC, vol. II). For the pose and costume see the late 3rd century B.C. coin from Syracuse, no. 233 in Kahil, op. cit.

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