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Lot 123 - Auction 43

Pair of Etruscan bauletto gold earrings Mid 6th century BC
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28.000,00 GBP
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Description



Pair of Etruscan bauletto gold earrings
Mid 6th century BC
length ca. cm 3 (1,2’’) (each)
Marvelous pairs of gold earrings cast on a bronze liner (ancient sphyrelaton technique), characterized by embossed designs and filigree: with a central plaque of a sequence of funerary masks, a couple of two fighting warriors and stylized volutes bands. Probably in origin suspended on hooks .
Etruscan jewels were produced only for funeral purposes as demonstration of elite status, as attested into the aristocratic grave goods. The most important manufacturing centers were in Vulci and Caere.

REFERENCES
F. Gaultier 2013: Etruscan Jewelry, Oxford 2013.

PROVENANCE
English private collection; acquired on the European art market in the 1970s.
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