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A charming pair of gold and paste earrings Magna Graecia, 4th – 3rd century BC
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6.000,00 GBP
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A charming pair of gold and paste earrings
Magna Graecia, 4th – 3rd century BC; height mm 33 (1’’); gr 3,11 (each); In the shape of a dolphin, hanging from a curved hoop and joined to a palmette-shaped tail; the scales and the mouth expressed through an execptional filigree work, the eyes made in blue paste.
A precious example of the high jewellery during the early hellenistic period, when the representation of the dolphin was very common also in the numismatic and coroplastic field.

PROVENANCE:
English private collection; acquired on the European art market in the 1970s.
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