Lot 64
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A GROUP OF TWELVE GREEK AND ROMAN GOLD EARRINGS
A GROUP OF TWELVE GREEK AND ROMAN GOLD EARRINGS
A GROUP OF TWELVE GREEK AND ROMAN GOLD EARRINGS
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A GROUP OF TWELVE GREEK AND ROMAN GOLD EARRINGS
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A GROUP OF TWELVE GREEK AND ROMAN GOLD EARRINGS

CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C. - 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A GROUP OF TWELVE GREEK AND ROMAN GOLD EARRINGS
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C. - 1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 9⁄16 in. (3.9 cm.) diam. max.
Provenance
Dolphin-headed earrings with green hardstone bead:
Ludwig Marx, Mainz or Albert Sieck, Munich.
Katalog der Sammlungen Ludwig Marx - Mainz, Albert Sieck - München, Dr. F.X. Weizinger & Co., Munich, 28-31 October 1918, lot 992, pl. 34.
German private collection, Berlin.
Kunstauktion in Luzern, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 14 June 1950, lot 811.

Lion-headed earrings with garnet bead:
Ludwig Marx, Mainz or Albert Sieck, Munich.
Katalog der Sammlungen Ludwig Marx - Mainz, Albert Sieck - München, Dr. F.X. Weizinger & Co., Munich, 28-31 October 1918, lot 983, pl. 34.
German private collection, Berlin.
Kunstauktion in Luzern, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 14 June 1950, lot 800.

All:
Ernst Kofler-Truniger (1903-1990) and Marthe Kofler-Truniger (1918-1999), Lucerne (Inv. nos. K 731, K 731 X, K 732 H, K 732 K, K 732 U, K 737, K 8891 J).
Private Collection, Lucerne, acquired from the above circa 1974; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.
Literature
Bull-headed earrings:
K. Schefold, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, Basel and Stuttgart, 1960, p. 315, no. 587.

Dolphin-headed earrings with green hardstone beads and lion-headed earrings:
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, Zurich, 1964, pp. 42, no. 398 and p. 44, no. 422.
Exhibited
Bull-headed earrings:
Basel, Kunsthalle, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, 19 June-13 September 1960.

Dolphin-headed earrings with green hardstone beads and lion-headed with garnet earrings:
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, 7 June-2 August 1964.

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Lot Essay

The dolphin-headed earrings are typically from Egypt and date to the Roman period. See no. 78 in H. Hoffmann and V. von Claer, Antiker Gold und Silber-Schmuck, 1968 for a similar pair and for discussion of the types, see J. Ogden, Gold jewellery in Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt, Doctoral Thesis, Durham University, 1990, vol. 1, pp. 152-159.

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