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GOLD BRACELET WITH LION HEADS
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GOLD BRACELET WITH LION HEADS
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,500 - €2,500
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Description
GOLD BRACELET WITH LION HEADS
Hellenistic art, late 4th–early 3rd century BC.
Flat open bracelet, consisting of a bronze core covered with gold leaf, with finely detailed lion’s heads at each end.
Diameter: 6.7 cm
Gross weight: 17.24 g
Provenance: Former J.B. collection, assembled in the 1960s–1970s, Switzerland
Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel, Switzerland, 23 September 2005: lot 204 (ill.)
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2008
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA125)
Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, 13 April – 26 October 2025
Bibliography: Jean-David Cahn AG, Auction 5, 23 September 2005, lot 204
J. M. Eisenberg, *Art of the Ancient World*, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2006, vol. XVII, p. 69, no. 139
J. Boardman, ‘Greek Art’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 70, fig. 53
A Hellenistic bracelet of gold leaf over a bronze core,
Late 4th–early 3rd century BC.
See original version (French)
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