A GROUP OF ANCIENT GOLD JEWELLERY

CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C. - 3RD CENTURY A.D.

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A GROUP OF ANCIENT GOLD JEWELLERY
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C. - 3RD CENTURY A.D.
Central hawk: 11⁄16 in. (1.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Ernst Kofler-Truniger (1903-1990) and Marthe Kofler-Truniger (1918-1999), Lucerne (Inv. no. K 721 N), acquired prior to 1962.
Private Collection, Lucerne, acquired from the above circa 1974; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.

Literature

7000 Ans D'Art en Iran, Petit Palais, Paris, 1961, p. 118, no. 708.
7000 Jahr Kunst in Iran, Essen, 16 February - 24 April 1962, p. 123, no. 350.
Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunstschätze aus Iran : Kunstschätze aus Iran von der prähistorischen bis zur Islamischen Zeit, 1962, p.93, no. 349.

Exhibited

Petit Palais, Paris, 7000 Ans D'Art en Iran, October 1961 - January 1962.
Villa Hügel, Essen, 7000 Jahr Kunst in Iran, 16 February - 24 April 1962.
Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunstschätze aus Iran : Kunstschätze aus Iran von der prähistorischen bis zur Islamischen Zeit, 27 May - 5 August 1962.

Further details

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Lot Essay

Including a pair of earrings and a singular earring, Parthian (Iran, circa 3rd century A.D.); a Greek gold necklace, composed of alternating amphora and seed-flange pendants (Early Classical period, circa 3rd-4th century B.C.), with a central sheet-gold hawk motif with outstretched wings (East Greek, 5th century B.C.), re-strung with modern tubular and seed beads; and a Greek sheet-gold plaque with two sphinxes and three singular beads (circa 5th-4th century B.C.)

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