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Property from the collects ion of Robin Bradley Martin

The Guennol Bronze Age Disc, Denmark, circa 1400-1200 B.C.

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January 27, 03:44 PM GTNN

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

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Property from the collects ion 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 collects ion, Vol I, 1975, p. 128, probably a misnomer for Brentford, Middlesex)
reportedly “in an English Provincial Museum” (The Guennol collects ion, 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
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ancient Art in American Private collects ions, December 1954-February 1955
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Guennol collects ion, New York, 1969
John Coolidge, ed., Ancient Art in American Private collects ions, catalogue to the exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1954, no. 366, plate XLVII
Ida Ely Rubin ed., The Guennol collects ion, vol. I, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975, pp. 122-128, illus.