A GREEK GOLD SPIRAL EARRING
A GREEK GOLD SPIRAL EARRING

CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK GOLD SPIRAL EARRING
CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Composed of sheet gold over a bronze core, with one and a quarter turns with lion head terminals, with open jaws and naturalistically modelled mane; and another with three and a half turns, sheet gold over a bronze core, possibly a hair ring, with remains of female head terminal, the other terminal in the form of a rosette with central grain
Largest: 1½ in. (3.8 cm.) long
來源
Private collection, UK, acquired prior to 1975; thence by descent to the present owner.

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Item one: for similar, cf. D. Williams and J. Ogden, Greek Gold Jewellery of the Classical World, London, 1994, p. 237, no. 171.

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