Sale 7017
London
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26 - 27 October 2004
Price realised
GBP 2,629
Estimate
A HELLENISTIC GOLD BULL-HEADED EARRING WITH COCKEREL PENDANT 2ND CENTURY B.C. Composed of a twisted wire hoop terminating in a bull's head, strongly modelled with heavy brows, the triangular collars behind ornamented with granulation and strung with a single remaining green glass bead, suspended below a cockerel decorated with filigree and granulation 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high
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PUBLISHED: Animals, 1996, III, no. 70. See illustration on previous page.
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