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THBHellenistic Greek 18K Gold / Glass Pendant, 8.4 g
Lot 18
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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By Artemis Gallery
Nov 29, 2018
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2018-11-29 10:00:00
2018-11-29 10:00:00
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Bidsquare : Holiday Glitz - Ancient / Ethnographic Art
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What to give this holiday season? Think silver, gold, bronze, shiny, glittery, wearable, festive. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. This is one sale you don't want to miss! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
What to give this holiday season? Think silver, gold, bronze, shiny, glittery, wearable, festive. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. This is one sale you don't want to miss! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Ancient Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. 3rd to 1st century BCE. A stunning pendant comprised of a translucent glass bead, pale green and perforated, with a hand-formed 18K gold suspension loop through the center. The inverted triangular loop has a smooth exterior surface flanked with a pair of grooved borders, and a repeating Herakles-knotted band bisecting the middle. A rimmed hemispherical cap tops the top of the glass bead, and a slender gold pin is secured within by a hollow gold sphere below. Faint areas of silvery iridescence highlight the bead's muted color, making this an elegant and wearable example of ancient fashion! Leather necklace cord included. Size (necklace): 13.75" L (34.9 cm); size (pendant): 1.25" H (3.2 cm); size (glass bead): 0.625" W (1.6 cm); total weight: 8.4 grams; gold quality: 18K.
Glass was considered a luxury item in the ancient world. It was used in everything from furniture inlays to embellishing architectural features, but its most common forms were that of vessels and jewelry. Hellenistic glass is thought by many to be among the most beautiful and highly-prized glass produced in antiquity due to the painstaking efforts needed to create such a high-quality product. The techniques used in ancient Greek glass manufacturing stem from the traditions of the Late Bronze Age which enabled glass artisans to create pieces that emulated the appearance of precious and semi-precious stones. Examples like this pendant could have been formed to resemble an uncut emerald or perhaps a slightly-colored fragment of rock crystal. Adding gold elements only helped to increase the opulence of the piece itself and thusly the wearer.
Provenance: private Minnesota, USA collection
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#136335Strung in modern times and wearable as shown. Gold and glass elements are ancient, and leather cord is modern. Surface wear commensurate with age, small nicks to upper and lower rims of glass bead with one large abrasion along top, slight bending and light tarnishing to gold loop and interior pin, and small indentations and tarnishing to gold sphere. Light earthen deposits throughout.Condition
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