HELLENISTC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK GOLD AND GLASS MEDALLION
HELLENISTC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
Perhaps a lid or fragment from a bowl, decorated on the underside in gold leaf with added red paint, with an eight-petalled rosette, ivy leaves and berries between the tips, bordered by a band of gold, remains of bronze on the back
1 1/8 in. (7.9 cm) diam.

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with Gawain McKinley, circa 1988.
Acquired by the current owner in 2001.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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For a bowl from Alexandria with similar decoration, but in gold sandwich glass, dating to the second half of the 3rd-early 2nd Century B.C., cf., N. Kunina, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection, St Petersberg, 1997, p. 255, no. 48.