ID 1360712
Lot 50 | A PAIR OF ATTIC GOLD EARRINGS
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000
LATE GEOMETRIC PERIOD, CIRCA 750-725 B.C.
Larger: 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm.) long
Provenance
Ernst Kofler-Truniger (1903-1990) and Marthe Kofler-Truniger (1918-1999), Luzern, acquired by 1955 (Inv. no. K 719A).
Private Collection, Luzern, acquired from the above circa 1974; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.
Literature
K. Schefold, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, Basel and Stuttgart, 1960, pp. 308-309, no. 554.
R.A. Higgins, "The Elgin Jewellery," The British Museum Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, June 1961, p. 103.
R.A. Higgins, Greek and Roman Jewellery, London, 1961, p. 99.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, Zurich, 1964, p. 41, no. 392, pl. 31.
R. A. Higgins, "Early Greek Jewellery," The Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 64, 1969, pp. 143, 148-149, pl. 41c-d.
D.L. Carroll, "A Group of Asymmetrical Spiral-Form Earrings," American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 74, no. 1, 1970, p. 38, pl. 10, fig. 6.
J.N. Coldstream, Geometric Greece, New York, 1977, pp. 126, 139, n. 51.
R.A. Higgins, Greek and Roman Jewellery, second edition, London, 1980, p. 98, pl. 14d.
B. Deppert-Lippitz, Griechischer Goldschmuck, Mainz am Rhein, 1985, p. 74.
S. Langdon, ed., From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer, Columbia, 1993, p. 71.
Exhibited
Basel, Kunsthalle, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, 19 June-13 September 1960.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, 7 June-2 August 1964.
| Medium: | Gold |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Geometric art (900-700 BC) |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities, Earrings, ear jewellery |
| Medium: | Gold |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Geometric art (900-700 BC) |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities, Earrings, ear jewellery |
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