A GREEK GOLD FINGER RING WITH A COW SUCKLING A CALF

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17.10.2023 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1037615
Lot 145 | A GREEK GOLD FINGER RING WITH A COW SUCKLING A CALF
A GREEK GOLD FINGER RING WITH A COW SUCKLING A CALF

LATE ARCHAIC TO EARLY CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

¾ in. (1.9 cm.) wide





Provenance

Adolf Schiller (1861-1943), Berlin.

Sammlung Baurat Schiller, Rudolf Lepke Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 19-20 March 1929, lot 1.

Sybilla Katz-Goldstein (1933-2013), Dieren, The Netherlands and Florida, acquired in 1947 on the occasion of her 14th birthday; thence by descent to the current owner.



Literature

J.M. Ogden, Gold Jewellery in Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt (Phd. diss., University of Durham, 1990), p. 5, n. 1, fig. 6.
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