AN ACHAEMENID GOLD EARRING AND CHAIN

Lot 84
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Lot 84 | AN ACHAEMENID GOLD EARRING AND CHAIN
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£ 4 000 – 6 000
AN ACHAEMENID GOLD EARRING AND CHAIN
IRAN, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Chain: 7 5/8 in. (19.6 cm.) long
Earing: ¾ in. (1.6 cm.) wide




Provenance

Reputedly excavated in Hamadan, Iran in 1920.
Maurice Vidal collection, New York, prior to July 1948.



Literature

A. Upham Pope, 'Recently Found Treasures of one of the World’s First and Greatest Empires: Achaemenid Gold Objects', in Illustrated London News, 17 July 1948, pp. 57-59.
Iran: pièces du Musée de Téhéran, du Musée du Louvre et de collections particulières, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée Cernuschi, 1948, p. 38, nos 68 and 70.
M. T. Mustafavi, The Historical Monuments of Hamadan and a Chapter concerning Avicenna, Teheran, 1953, pp. 140-141.



Exhibited

Musée Cernuschi, Paris, Iran: pièces du Musée de Téhéran, du Musée du Louvre et de collections particulières, 23-31 July 1948.
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