Lot 58
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A GREEK GOLD, ROCK CRYSTAL AND GARNET BOX BEZEL RING
A GREEK GOLD, ROCK CRYSTAL AND GARNET BOX BEZEL RING
A GREEK GOLD, ROCK CRYSTAL AND GARNET BOX BEZEL RING
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A GREEK GOLD, ROCK CRYSTAL AND GARNET BOX BEZEL RING
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A GREEK GOLD, ROCK CRYSTAL AND GARNET BOX BEZEL RING

HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK GOLD, ROCK CRYSTAL AND GARNET BOX BEZEL RING
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
Bezel: ¾ in. (1.9 cm.) diam.; ring size P
Provenance
Ernest Guilhou (1844-1911) collection, Paris.
Catalogue of the Superb Collection of Rings formed by the Late Monsieur E. Guilhou of Paris; Sotheby's, London, 9-12 November 1937, lot 68.
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne Hotel National, 26 August - 3 September 1938, lot 484, pl. 16 (unsold).
with Galerie Fischer, Lucerne.
Ernst Kofler-Truniger (1903-1990) and Marthe Kofler-Truniger (1918-1999), Lucerne, acquired from the above in April 1952 (Inv. no. K 730 A).
Private Collection, Lucerne, acquired from the above circa 1974; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.
Literature
K. Schefold, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, Basel and Stuttgart, 1960, p. 319, no. 607.
B. Segall, 'Zum Export alexandrinischer Toreutik', in Festschrift Eugen von Mercklin, eds. E. Homann-Wedeking and B. Segall, Waldsassen, 1964, p. 168, pls. 60,5-7 and 61,1.
Exhibited
Basel, Kunsthalle, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, 19 June-13 September 1960.

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Lot Essay

The box-shaped oval bezel is decorated at the sides with a lozenge design in finely granulated beads and contains a filigree gold flower bouquet with blue-green glass paste under a domed rock-crystal cover. Two volutes form the transition to the hoop, which is composed from strands of gold wire, overlaid with filigree motifs resembling the knobs on Herakles' club, intersected at the base by a small garnet cabochon set on top of a Herakles knot and flanked by an ivy leaf-shaped setting on either side. This example is very similar to one found in the Oppenländer collection in Stuttgart, see B. Segall (op. cit.), pls. 60,1-4.
For a discussions of the general type of late Hellenistic “Box bezel” ring see J. Ogden, Gold jewellery in Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt, Doctoral Thesis, Durham University, vol. 1, 1990, pp. 113-115 and vol. 2 figs. 93-95. Also T. Hackens, Catalogue of the Classical Collection, Classical Jewellery, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, 1976. pp. 94-96.

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