A GREEK GOLD MASK

Lot 68
12.04.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 734882
Lot 68 | A GREEK GOLD MASK
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$ 5 000 – 7 000
A GREEK GOLD MASK

ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.

6 3⁄8 in. (16.1 cm.) high







Provenance

Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), Farnham, Dorset, acquired by 1884; thence by continuous descent to Stella Edith Pitt-Rivers (1913-1994), U.K.

Acquired by the current owner by 1992.





Literature

G.F. Waldo Johnson, et al., Augustus Henry Lane Fox-Pitt-Rivers: Catalogue of his Archaeological and Anthropological Collections, vol. II, Dorset, 1884-1891, p. 15.





Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992-2022 (Loan no. L.1992.54.15).





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