Lot 52
52
A GRECO-PERSIAN BROWN CHALCEDONY TABLOID WITH A PERSIAN HORSEMAN SPEARING A BOAR
This lot is offered without reserve. PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK CITY PRIVATE COLLECTION
A GRECO-PERSIAN BROWN CHALCEDONY TABLOID WITH A PERSIAN HORSEMAN SPEARING A BOAR

ATTRIBUTED TO THE PENDANTS GROUP, CIRCA LATE 5TH CENTURY B.C.

Details
A GRECO-PERSIAN BROWN CHALCEDONY TABLOID WITH A PERSIAN HORSEMAN SPEARING A BOAR
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PENDANTS GROUP, CIRCA LATE 5TH CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (2.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
Private Collection, Newton, MA, brought from Iran to the U.S., 1983.
Private Collection, Boston.
Property of a New England Collector; Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 18 December 1998, lot 205.
Literature
H.C.L. Wiegandt, Die griechischen Siegel der klassischen Zeit: Ikonographischer Vergleich, Frankfurt am Main, 2009, p. 82, no. CbbP3, pl. LII.
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Lot Essay


The Pendants Group takes its name from several unusual pear-shaped pendants. Other gem shapes in the group are scaraboids and scarabs (see pls. 884-902 in Boardman, Greek Gems and Finger Rings, and for a related scene of a Persian man on a rearing horse spearing a charging boar, see the blue chalcedony scaraboid in the British Museum, pl. 905, in Boardman, op. cit.).

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