A PAIR OF PHOENICIAN GOLD BASKET PENDANT EARRINGS

CIRCA 7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.

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A PAIR OF PHOENICIAN GOLD BASKET PENDANT EARRINGS
CIRCA 7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
Each with tapering leech-shaped hoop, a cylindrical basket with high loop handle suspended below, decorated with granulated pyramid
2 in. (5 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November, 1997, lot 220.

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Lot Essay

For similar cf. S. Moscati (ed.), The Phoenicians, London, 1988, pp. 82, 378, 624, fig. 238 and F. H. Marshall, Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, British Museum, London, 1969, pp. 151-152, pl. XXIII, nos 1490-1491.

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