Property from the Collection of Robin Bradley Martin
The Guennol Bronze Age Disc, Denmark, circa 1400-1200 B.C.
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January 27, 03:44 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Property from the Collection of Robin Bradley Martin
The Guennol Bronze Age Disc, Denmark, circa 1400-1200 B.C.
of shallow conical profile centering a slender conical finial, the surface finely decorated with three registers of running spirals increasing in complexity toward the perimeter, the linear borders separating them intricately ornamented with dentate, zigzag, and echeloned diamond motifs.
Diameter 9¹³⁄₁₆ in. (24.9 cm.)
reportedly “found in the River Thames at Brentwood, Middlesex” (The Guennol collection, Vol I, 1975, p. 128, probably a misnomer for Brentford, Middlesex)
reportedly “in an English Provincial Museum” (The Guennol collection, Vol I, 1975, p. 128)
K.J. Hewett (1919-1994), London
Alastair Bradley and Edith Martin, New York, acquired from the above in 1950
by descent to the present owner
reportedly “in an English Provincial Museum” (The Guennol collection, Vol I, 1975, p. 128)
K.J. Hewett (1919-1994), London
Alastair Bradley and Edith Martin, New York, acquired from the above in 1950
by descent to the present owner
John Coolidge, ed., Ancient Art in American Private Collections, catalogue to the exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1954, no. 366, plate XLVII
Ida Ely Rubin ed., The Guennol Collection, vol. I, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975, pp. 122-128, illus.
Ida Ely Rubin ed., The Guennol Collection, vol. I, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975, pp. 122-128, illus.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ancient Art in American Private Collections, December 1954-February 1955
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Guennol Collection, New York, 1969
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Guennol Collection, New York, 1969