Lot Essay
The Gans fibula, together with two pairs in the Metropolitan Museum and a single in Berlin, is thought to have been found near Thessaloniki.
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EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 330-300 B.C.
Details
A GREEK GOLD FIBULA
early hellenistic period, circa 330-300 b.c.
Composed of an arched bow with five "paddle-wheel" beads interspersed with flattened spiral-beaded and plain wire separators, each side of the hinge-plate with a square sheet decorated with a facing female head, bordered by flattened spiral beaded wire, the open end of the plate, through which the now-missing pin would have emerged, now with two projecting wires composed of three spiraled wires, the ends unravelled, the catch-plate with the fore-part of a griffin in front of the fore-part of a winged horse between two large domes or capstans, the domes supported on collars of beaded wire, the flat back with acanthus leaves in low relief
3.3/8 in. (8.6 cm) wide
early hellenistic period, circa 330-300 b.c.
Composed of an arched bow with five "paddle-wheel" beads interspersed with flattened spiral-beaded and plain wire separators, each side of the hinge-plate with a square sheet decorated with a facing female head, bordered by flattened spiral beaded wire, the open end of the plate, through which the now-missing pin would have emerged, now with two projecting wires composed of three spiraled wires, the ends unravelled, the catch-plate with the fore-part of a griffin in front of the fore-part of a winged horse between two large domes or capstans, the domes supported on collars of beaded wire, the flat back with acanthus leaves in low relief
3.3/8 in. (8.6 cm) wide
Provenance
The Gans Collection
Literature
Jaeger, Die Sammlung Eduard Gans, no. 112.
Amandry, Collection Hlne Stathatos, III: Objets antiques at byzantins, p. 208, fig. 113g.
Williams and Ogden, Greek Gold Jewellery of the Classical World,
p. 79.
Amandry, Collection Hlne Stathatos, III: Objets antiques at byzantins, p. 208, fig. 113g.
Williams and Ogden, Greek Gold Jewellery of the Classical World,
p. 79.