Collection of gold jewellery
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1960
- Art Fund grant
- £1,000 (Total: £5,000)
- Vendor
- Lord Elgin
Collection of over 75 pieces of jewellery, including; 15 rings, 2 bracelets, 4 fibulae, 2 diadems, a myrtle spray, 8 ear-rings, Mycenaean bead in the shape of a lily and 12 wire spirals for hair decoration.
Provenance
7th Earl of Elgin; by descent.
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