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Pair of earrings with Maenad heads

2020-327 a-b
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Object Number
2020-327 a-b
Medium
Gold
Dates

late 4th–early 2nd century B.C.

Dimensions
each: 2.6 × 1.5 × 2.5 cm (1 × 9/16 × 1 in.)
Culture
Greek
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Type
earrings, goldwork
Subject
heads, bacchantes, women
Materials
gold

Luis de Clercq (1882-1901), Oignies, France. Thence by descent to his grandnephew, Comte Henri de Boisgelin, Paris; E. Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Geneva, from 1967; Thence by descent to his son, Emmanuel Koutoulakis, Geneva; Kevork Aharonian, Paris, until February 2020

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/493108200

André de Ridder, <em>Collection de Clercq, Tome VII: Les bijoux et les pierres gravées</em> (Paris 1911), p. 54, cat. nos. 220-221 [de Clercq inv. nos. B187-B188]

9606 1911

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