“À BAULE” EARRING - former Kofler-Truniger collection Etruscan, ca. 6th century BC. Gold. The top tapers to a point and consists of two large scrolls enclosing a small plate. The other end with a field decorated with fine lines. Nine bosses, each in a square frame of wavy wire. Bow missing. L 4 cm, W 2 cm. Total weight 2.9 g. In two parts. Small dents and cracks. Slight verdigris. Provenance: - Former collections of Ludwig Marx, Mainz, and Albert Sieck, Munich. - Auction Dr. F. X. Weizinger & Co., Munich, October 28–31, 1918, lot 976, ill. plate 33. - Theodor Fischer, Lucerne, June 17, 1950 (according to index card). - Collection Ernst and Marthe Kofler-Truniger (1903–1990 & 1918–1999), Lucerne (inv. no. K730), acquired from the above. - Swiss private collection, Lucerne, acquired from the above in ca. 1974. - By inheritance in the same Swiss family collection, Lucerne. Exhibited: - Kunsthaus Zurich, Art and Life of the Etruscans, January 15–end of March 1955, No. 404. - Kunsthaus Zurich, E. and M. Kofler-Truniger Collection, Lucerne, June 7–August 2, 1964, No. 427 (with exhibition catalog). Literature: Kunsthaus Zürich (ed.): Collection E. and M. Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne. Exhibition catalog, June 7–August 2, 1964, p. 44, No. 427 (not illustrated, dimensions differ as the piece has since been damaged). Cf. Frederick Henry Marshall: Catalogue of the jewelry, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, in the departments of antiquities, British Museum. London 1911, p. 532 (plate XVI, figs. 1303, 1305). * The full tax is charged on this item marked *, i.e. VAT is charged on the sum will be refunded to Purchasers providing a validly stamped export declaration.