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    • AN ETRUSCAN BONE MIRROR HANDLE
    Lot 86 | PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DANIEL W. DIETRICH II Read more

    AN ETRUSCAN BONE MIRROR HANDLE

    CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.

    Price realised

    USD 6,000

    Estimate

    USD 6,000 - USD 8,000

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    AN ETRUSCAN BONE MIRROR HANDLE
    CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
    4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high

    Provenance

    with Holger Termer, Hamburg, 1980 (Kunst der Antike, Vol. 2, no. 99).
    Private Collection, Hamburg.
    Antiquities, Sotheby’s, New York, 25 June 1992, lot 123.
    William B. Dietrich, Philadelphia, acquired from the above; thence by descent.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    W. Hornbostel, Kunst der Etrusker, Hamburg, 1980, p. 96, no. 117.
    U. Liepmann, Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Munich, Vol. 2, 1988, p. 49, no. 20, pls. 20 a-c.


    Exhibited

    Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Kunst der Etrusker, 13 August-2 October 1981.


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    Pre-Lot Text

    PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DANIEL W. DIETRICH II

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