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Lot 1013* - A214 Works of Art & Decorative Arts - jeudi, 18. septembre 2025, 13h30

“À BAULE” EARRING - former Kofler-Truniger collection

Etruscan, ca. 6th century BC.
Gold. The top tapers to a point and consists of two large scrolls enclosing a small plate. The other end with a field decorated with fine lines. Nine bosses, each in a square frame of wavy wire. Bow missing.
L 4 cm, W 2 cm. Total weight 2.9 g.
In two parts. Small dents and cracks. Slight verdigris.

Provenance:
- Former collections of Ludwig Marx, Mainz, and Albert Sieck, Munich.
- Auction Dr. F. X. Weizinger & Co., Munich, October 28–31, 1918, lot 976, ill. plate 33.
- Theodor Fischer, Lucerne, June 17, 1950 (according to index card).
- Collection Ernst and Marthe Kofler-Truniger (1903–1990 & 1918–1999), Lucerne (inv. no. K730), acquired from the above.
- Swiss private collection, Lucerne, acquired from the above in ca. 1974.
- By inheritance in the same Swiss family collection, Lucerne.

Exhibited:
- Kunsthaus Zurich, Art and Life of the Etruscans, January 15–end of March 1955, No. 404.
- Kunsthaus Zurich, E. and M. Kofler-Truniger Collection, Lucerne, June 7–August 2, 1964, No. 427 (with exhibition catalog).

Literature:
Kunsthaus Zürich (ed.): Collection E. and M. Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne. Exhibition catalog, June 7–August 2, 1964, p. 44, No. 427 (not illustrated, dimensions differ as the piece has since been damaged).

Cf. Frederick Henry Marshall: Catalogue of the jewelry, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, in the departments of antiquities, British Museum. London 1911, p. 532 (plate XVI, figs. 1303, 1305).

CHF 1 200 / 1 600 | (€ 1 240 / 1 650)

Vendu pour CHF 1 500 (frais inclus)
Information sans garantie.