Hairpin with an ibex-head finial
Culture: Greek
Period: Hellenistic period
Date: 3rd-2nd century BC
Medium: Glass with gold and garnet
Dimensions:
L. 7.9 cm; L. gold head 2 cm; Dm. Rod 0.4 cm; H. with pendant 3.4 cm.
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with the Grace Fortner Rider Fund
Object number: 88.10
Provenance: with Adolph Schiller, Schöneberg by 1929; Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auktion-Haus, Berlin, March 19/20, 1929, lot 56; with Wilhelm Horn (1870-1959), Berlin, by 1959; sold, Christie's, London, December 11, 1987, lot 48 to San Antonio Museum of Art
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