CNG 88, Lot: 2129. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gold necklace set with stones and beads. Etruscan, 5th century BC. Gold wire and loops holding a series of stones and beads. From the outside: a total of nine chert stones, four on one side, five on the other; two tear-dropped shaped carnelian pendants hanging from gold wire; two convex, rectangular garnets between small pearls and gold spacers; two granulated gold spheres between small pearls and gold spacers, each with garnet pendants hanging from gold wire, one with a fully granulated sphere; polygonal carnelian bead between small pearl and gold spacer. Modern extension for wearing. Length (of ancient portion): 18.7cm; weight (of entire piece): 10.62g. Minor chips and marks on stones.

Ex Edward Gans Collection (Summa Galleries I, 18 September 1981), lot 124 (with additional portion of necklace). Published in R. Jaeger, Die Sammlung Eduard Gans: antike Schmucksachen und Gegenstände der Kleinkunst in Gold, Edelstein, Halbedelstein, Glas, Bronze (Berlin, 1928), no. 14.