LOT 0042 Greek Gold Jewellery Set
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5th-4th century BC. A substantial group of jewellery items including: a rectangular sheet gold repoussé plaque with a border of raised domes; two bifacial pendants or earrings taking the form of rosettes with penannular rings at the centre decorated with granulated beads, each with thirteen tear-shaped arms with bituminous cores to the circumference, two small suspension loops to one 'petal' on each pendant; a large repoussé discoid pendant with punched dots and central boss encircled by eight panels, each displaying a smaller raised disc with central dome, two integral tubular suspension loops above; all held in a custom-made presentation box. See Williams, D. and Ogden, J., Greek Gold: Jewellery of the Classical World, New York, 1995, for comparable items and discussion. 1 kg total, 4.3-22.5cm (box: 29.5 x 26.5cm) (1 3/4 - 9 (11 1/2 x 10 1/2)"). Property of a London gentleman; previously with Bonhams, London, 3 April 2014, lot 81; formerly in a private UK collection formed in the 1940s and 1950s; accompanied by a copy of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages, and an independent specialist report and valuation by graduate gemmologist and jewellery expert Anna Rogers, GIA GG, BA, Gem-A, ref. no.166558/7/10/2020; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10123-166558. [4]
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