About the Artwork
Gapped Ring or Clothing Fastener
c. 700/300 BC
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Irish
Unknown
Gold, cast, engraved
maximum width 11/16 in (1.8 cm) weight: 11.9 grams
Metalwork
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
56.141
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Provenance
County Clare, Ireland, found in 1854 (?) New York, Berry-Hill Galleries (dealer), sold 1956 to DIA.
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Motz, T. A., "A Catalogue of Irish Prehistoric Gold Jewelry in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts," unpublished master's thesis, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1978, no. 11, p. 48-53, pl. XVI.
Motz, T. A., "Irish Gold in Detroit," Bulletin of the Detroit Institue of Arts, vol. 57, no. 2, 1979, p. 87, fig. 1C.2(article pp. 83-88, group photo p. 82).
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Irish, Gapped Ring or Clothing Fastener, c. 700/300 BC, Gold, cast, engraved. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 56.141.
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