Necklace with Clasp of Two Bull Heads
4th-3rd century BC (Late Classical-Hellenistic)
19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm) (l.);clasp: 7/16 x 3/16 in. (1.15 x 0.5 cm)
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This necklace is composed of 85 hollow gold beads, the openings edged with twisted wire. The beads are threaded onto a chain made of double loops of wire constricted in their centers and twisted so that the end loops are in perpendicular planes. The bulls' head finials have a...
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Giovanni Dattari, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Collections of Jean Lambros et Giovanni Dattari Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 17-19, 1912, lot 572; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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