A FINE PAIR OF HELLENISTIC GOLD EARRINGS, each with a long tapering hook terminating in a filigree petalled rosette with central circular setting, below a nude figure of winged Eros who has one leg slightly drawn back, wearing a garland across his chest, holding an inverted dramatic mask in one lowered hand and a sphere in the other which is raised up, circa 3rd Century B.C.

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A FINE PAIR OF HELLENISTIC GOLD EARRINGS, each with a long tapering hook terminating in a filigree petalled rosette with central circular setting, below a nude figure of winged Eros who has one leg slightly drawn back, wearing a garland across his chest, holding an inverted dramatic mask in one lowered hand and a sphere in the other which is raised up, circa 3rd Century B.C.

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Cf. F. H. Marshall, Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, The British Museum, 1969, p. 207, pl. XXXII, no. 1898 for a similar earring with Eros carrying a mask and no. 1902 carrying a ball

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