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PAIR OF GOLD AND GLASS LYNX EARRINGS
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PAIR OF GOLD AND GLASS LYNX EARRINGS
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,800 - €2,500
Voluntary lot
Description
PAIR OF GOLD AND GLASS LYNX EARRINGS
Hellenistic art, 4th–2nd century BC
A pair of earrings featuring a finely detailed lynx head; the filigree neck is adorned with a glass cabochon and extends into a twisted ring; the open mouth houses the clasp, which is adorned with a glass cabochon.
Modern hooks.
Height: 3 cm
Gross weight: 9.39 g
Provenance: Sotheby’s, New York, 30 May 1986: lot 199 (ill.)
Formerly in the collection of Llewellyn Thomas Evans, New Hampshire
Sotheby’s, New York, 8 December 2000: lot 172 (ill.)
Collection of Dr Bierfreund, Germany
Cahn International AG, Muenchenstein
Christian Levett Collection, Mougins Museum of Classical Art, acquired in 2011
Exhibitions: Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA715)
Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, 13 April – 26 October 2025
Bibliography: Sotheby’s, Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art, New York, 30 May 1986, lot 199
Sotheby’s, Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art, New York, 8 December 2000, lot 172
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 15 and 88
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 10, figs. 5 and 79
A Hellenistic pair of gold and glass lynx-headed earrings,
4th–2nd century BC.
See original version (French)
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