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A GREEK GOLD NECKLACE
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Formed of a length of loop-in-loop chain, terminating at each end with a female head, her oval face with wide eyes deeply-set beneath overhanging brows, a prominent nose and a small mouth, her hair plaited, arranged in a melon coiffure, and pulled back in a chignon, adorned with pendant earrings and a beaded necklace of granulation, a double hook-and-loop closure emerging from each chignon
121116 in. (32.3 cm.) long

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, U.K. 1970s.
with Gawain McKinley, London, prior to 1985.
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Lot Essay

This necklace may once have had an elaborate centerpiece, perhaps a Herakles knot, as seen in the similar example in the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, Germany, see no. 86 in H. Hoffman and P. F. Davidson, Greek Gold: Jewelry From the Age of Alexander.

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