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A GREEK GOLD NECKLACE

HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.

    Price Realised USD 15,000
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    USD 15,000 - USD 20,000
    Closed: 10 Dec 2015
    A GREEK GOLD NECKLACE

    HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH CENTURY B.C.

    Price Realised USD 15,000
    Closed: 10 Dec 2015
    Price Realised USD 15,000
    Closed: 10 Dec 2015
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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
    1211⁄16 in. (32.3 cm.) long

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