ID 734882
Lot 68 | A GREEK GOLD MASK
Estimate value
$ 5 000 – 7 000
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).
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
| Medium: | Gold |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Archaic Period |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Category: | Mask |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Medium: | Gold |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Archaic Period |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Category: | Mask |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Address of auction |
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