Pin with Lynx Head

1st century BC (Hellenistic) 7 1/2 in. (19 cm) Citation Source image

The top of the gold pin is a finely modeled lynx head. A small molding on the shaft of the pin keeps the garnet bead and conical collar from slipping off. One setting with a tear-drop garnet is firmly fixed in the lynx's mouth by a pin, the extremity of which is looped. Chaine...

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[From a tomb near Olbia, Parutino, Ukraine (?)]; F. L. van Gans, Frankfurt (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; P. Mavrogordato, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague [catalogue 1921, part II, lot 92 E]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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