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Property Formerly in the Collection of William and Bernadette Berger
A GREEK GOLD AND GARNET NECKLACE
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND CENTURY B.C.
Details
A GREEK GOLD AND GARNET NECKLACE
Hellenistic Period, Late 3rd-Early 2nd Century B.C.
Composed of three rows of loop-in-loop chain threaded through sets of three joined hollow beads with wire rims at their openings, with an oval box-like centerpiece set with a cabochon garnet, beaded wire along the bezel and at the rim, twenty-nine filigree rosettes suspended along the length, each supporting a tri-lobed beech-nut pendant with beaded wire above and granulation at their tips, and at each end, triangular box-like terminals, both set with a pear-shaped garnet and ornamented with filigree
10 5/8 in. (27 cm) long
Hellenistic Period, Late 3rd-Early 2nd Century B.C.
Composed of three rows of loop-in-loop chain threaded through sets of three joined hollow beads with wire rims at their openings, with an oval box-like centerpiece set with a cabochon garnet, beaded wire along the bezel and at the rim, twenty-nine filigree rosettes suspended along the length, each supporting a tri-lobed beech-nut pendant with beaded wire above and granulation at their tips, and at each end, triangular box-like terminals, both set with a pear-shaped garnet and ornamented with filigree
10 5/8 in. (27 cm) long
Provenance
Private Collection in Scandinavia
James R. Ogden & Sons, Ltd., London
Dennis Smith
Antiquities, Christie's New York, 14 June 1996, lot 48
James R. Ogden & Sons, Ltd., London
Dennis Smith
Antiquities, Christie's New York, 14 June 1996, lot 48