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Lot 92

A Geometric Greek bone, carnelian and gold pin

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Geometric Greek bone, carnelian and gold pin
Circa 8th-7th Century B.C.
Re-composed with a slender gold pin, gold wire spiralling around the middle upwards towards a small discoid gold bead ornamented with granulation, a long cylindrical carnelian tubular bead above, surmounted with a domed bone finial decorated with an incised geometric band of birds, secured above with a small gold plug terminal, 10cm long

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Provenance:
Property from a Dutch private Collection, The Netherlands, formed in the 1960s-70s.
Christie's, London, 10-11 July 1974, lot 249.

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