CIRCA 500 B.C.

Details

AN EAST GREEK ELECTRUM AND GARNET NECKLACE
CIRCA 500 B.C.
14 1/2 in. (37 cm.) long

Provenance

S.M collection, London, 1978, according to 1987 invoice.
L. Saminaden collection, acquired from the above in 1987.
Brussels private collection, acquired from the above.

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Lot Essay

The necklace is composed of twenty-three fluted electrum spherical beads interspersed with fourteen garnet beads and a central electrum bull's head pendant intricately decorated with filigree and granulation. For another example of similar beads and bull pendant with granulation in gold see B. Deppert- Lippitz, Griechischer Goldschmuck, Mainz, 1985, pp. 119-121, nos 67 and 68.

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