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Lot 16*

A Central European silver twisted torc

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28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Central European silver twisted torc
Circa 700-200 B.C.
Of twisted penannular form, the ends stamped with a row of palmettes with snake head terminals, 11.7cm wide

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Provenance:
Lt Gen. A.H.L.F. Pitt-Rivers (1827-1900) collection, acquired in Kronstadt, Romania, and housed in his museum in Farnham, Dorset.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 December 1990, lot 143.
with Merrin Gallery, New York.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above in 1991.

There is a group of Dacian gold spiral bracelets similarly decorated with palmette motifs and snake head terminals, circa 2nd Century B.C., at the National Museum of Romanian History.

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