13TH CENTURY B.C.

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A EUROPEAN BRONZE AGE GOLD DOUBLE SPIRAL BRACELETS
13TH CENTURY B.C.
Of Ófehértó type, the armlet with double spiral terminals, the stepped hoop with a light ridge on the inside, the ends of the bracelet tapering and becoming round in cross-section, each forked terminal with twin spirals, the hoop decorated with lines of closely hammered dots in the angles between the stepped ridges, the rounded ends each with three pointed knobs on hexagonal base and a zone with parallel grooves, diagonal notches and zigzags with dots, the terminal spirals with similar diagonal notches
3 in. (7.5 cm.) diam.; weight: 99 g.

Provenance

One of two bracelets found by the present owner in 1978 in a field in Austria; the other (of same type but not a pair) is now in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
An export licence from Austria accompanies this lot.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

A full report by Dr Fritz Eckart Barth, Prähistorische Abteilung, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1996, accompanies this lot. A total of only eleven armlets of this particular type are known, one of which is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. 1927. 4625), a gift of Sir Arthur Evans, having been acquired by his father Sir J. Evans in 1876.

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