Gapped Ring or Clothing Fastener, 800/300 BC

  • Irish

Bronze covered in gold sheet

  • diam. 2.3 cm; wgt. 17.6 grams

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

54.242

London, Goldschmidt Galleries, sold 1936

coll. William Randolph Hearst

London, Sotheby & Co., sale of the William Randolph Hearst Collection, 11-12 July 1939, p. 56, lot 361, (bought in)

[New York, Gimbels Department Store?] sale of the William Randolph Hearst Collection, 1941

New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, sold to DIA 1954.

London, Sotheby & Co., Catalogue of the Important Collection of Antiquities, the Property of William Randolph Hearst, 11-12 July 1939, p. 56, lot 361. Robinson, F. W., "Eight Examples of Prehistoric Irish Gold, Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 33, nos. 3-4, 1953-54, p. 64. Motz, T. A., "A Catalogue of Irish Prehistoric Gold Jewelry in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts," unpublished master's thesis, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1978, no.8, p. 40-43, pl. XIII. Motz, T. A., "Irish Gold in Detroit," Bulletin of the Detroit Institue of Arts, vol. 57, no. 2, 1979, p. 87-8, fig. 1B.1 (article pp. 83-88, group photo p. 82).

Irish, Gapped Ring or Clothing Fastener, 800/300 BC, Bronze covered in gold sheet. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 54.242.