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GOLD SNAKE BRACELET
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GOLD SNAKE BRACELET
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Estimate €8,000 - €10,000
Voluntary lot
Description
GOLD SNAKE BRACELET
Egyptian art, late Ptolemaic or early Roman period, 1st century BC.
An open bracelet whose ends are adorned with the sinuous body of a snake with finely chiselled scales. The tail, curled round itself, forms two loops, whilst the front part of the reptile forms an elegant S-shape.
Height: 7 cm
Diameter: 5.3 cm
Gross weight: 28.87 g
Provenance: Former Belgian private collection, assembled in the 1950s–1960s
Cahn International AG, Muenchenstein
Christian Levett Collection, Mougins Museum of Classical Art, acquired in 2012
Exhibitions: Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2012–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA809)
Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, 13 April – 26 October 2025
Bibliography: A. Schubert, ‘Cleopatra VII’ in Historisches Museum Der Pfalz Speyer (ed.), Caesar & Cleopatra, 2025, p. 103
An Egyptian gold snake bracelet,
Late Ptolemaic to early Roman period, 1st century BC
See original version (French)
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