EGYPTIAN BRACELET WITH SNAKE HEADS

Description: A solid silver circular bracelet without a closure. Both ends of the piece are modelled in the form of snake heads. Given the period and the style of the production, these reptiles are most probably cobras, royal emblems of Ancient Egypt. The detailed work on the eyes, the mouths and the scales of the creatures is quite lifelike. | Egypt. Roman Period, 1st century BC – 1st century AD

Condition: Intact, with a small crack in the base of the bracelet which does not affect its quality or the stability of the piece. Notes: The piece includes authenticity certificate. For reasons of data protection, when the provenance of the pieces is private collections, only the initials of the particular collectors are shown, the complete information of these collections will be delivered to the buyer in the authenticity certificate. |The piece includes Spanish Export License ( Passport for European Union) - If the piece is destined outside the European Union a substitution of the export permit should be requested and an export fee must be paid ( see terms and conditions ). This process could take between 1 and 2 months.

Provenance: Private collection of J. J. S., EE. UU, (1914 - 1997). He acquired most of his collection while serving as the Cultural Attaché in the 1960s in Egypt. Later he served as the Assistant Director of the Smithsonian Institution; he was appointed by President Reagan to be a member of the Presidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee; and was Emeritus Professor at the Archaeological Institute of America. He was a scholar and highly respected collector. His collection of medieval coins of the Crusades was sold in one lot at Sotheby’s, London, in 1997. Dimensions: 7,50 cm diameter.