About the Artwork
Grooved Band
between 1200 and 1000 BCE
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Irish
Unknown
Gold
Overall: 13/16 × 2 7/16 inches (2.1 × 6.2 cm, 18.3 g)
Metalwork
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
55.205
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, engraved in script inside: Dug out of a bog in the County Antrim and given to me by my esteemed kinsman James Orr Lecky Esq
Provenance
found in County Antrim (Ireland)
James Orr Lecky (Beardsville Bushmills, County Antrim, Ireland)
Jameson (Castle Bellingham, County Antrim, Ireland)
until 1955, (Lady Cynthia D. Goff, Glenville, County Waterford, Erie, Ireland)
1955-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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 Unpublished master's thesis, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1978, no. 4, p. 26-27, pl. IX.
Motz, T. A. "Irish Gold in Detroit," Bulletin of the DIA 57, no. 2 (1979):pp. 83-88; p. 86, (fig. 1J), (ill.) p. 82.
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Irish, Grooved Band, between 1200 and 1000 BCE, gold. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 55.205.
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