Lot 261
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A GREEK BRONZE SPIRAL ARMLET, of angular section, tapering towards the overlapping out-turned terminals, decorated with incised lines, crosses and crosshatching, with a rib along the central medial line and outer edges -- 3.7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) diam., Geometric period, late 8th/early 7th Century B.C.

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A GREEK BRONZE SPIRAL ARMLET, of angular section, tapering towards the overlapping out-turned terminals, decorated with incised lines, crosses and crosshatching, with a rib along the central medial line and outer edges -- 3.7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) diam., Geometric period, late 8th/early 7th Century B.C.
Provenance
Formerly in the Collection of The Lord McAlpine of West Green.

Lot Essay

Cf. L. Marangou (ed.), Minoan and Greek Civilization from the Mitsotakis Collection, Athens, 1992, p. 321, no. 399; and D. von Bothmer, Glories of the Past: Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, pp. 98-99, no. 80a for similar.

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