EARLY BRONZE AGE, CIRCA 2000 B.C.

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A GROUP OF ANATOLIAN GOLD AND CARNELIAN JEWELRY
EARLY BRONZE AGE, CIRCA 2000 B.C.
Comprising a pair of crescent earrings, each with a ribbed flange overlaid with filigree wire and bands of granulation forming stripes, tapering to the plain earwire; a necklace formed of faceted gold beads, with two sets gold spacer beads with eight perforations, each flanked by carnelian beads, a single carnelian bead along the length; two gold hairpins, each tall tapering shaft surmounted by a spherical carnelian bead, a double ring of granulation toward the top; eleven sheet domed attachments encircled by a row of granulation; a group of small gold beads formed of a ring of granulation framed by plain wires; and a fragmentary sheet figure, possibly electrum, with incision for the hair and details of the face
Larger hairpin: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm.) long

Provenance

with Elie Borowski, Basel, 1970s.

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Lot Essay

For two related pairs of earrings, one from the so-called "Treasure of Priam" and one from the "Poliochni Treasure," see nos. 171 and 175 in J. Aruz, ed., Art of the First Cities, The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus.

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