Lot Essay
For a related example see no. 1888 in Marshall, Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum.
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HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
Details
A PAIR OF GREEK GOLD EARRINGS
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
Each with a pan-shaped disk, the upturned edge decorated with beaded wire, the disk centered by a rosette, the petals rimmed with beaded wire, the central rosette with the petals rimmed with beaded wire and centered by a granule, each with a hooked wire on the reverse formed into a loop supporting a solid-cast figure of Eros, the pair antithetically posed, with one leg advanced, their separately-made wings outstretched, depicted nude, with a baldric formed of beaded wire over one shoulder, each holding a separately-made mantle across his back in one raised hand and one lowered hand, a separately-made kithara in the raised hand of each, the hair with the characteristic central plait
Each: 1½ in. (3.8 cm.) long (2)
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
Each with a pan-shaped disk, the upturned edge decorated with beaded wire, the disk centered by a rosette, the petals rimmed with beaded wire, the central rosette with the petals rimmed with beaded wire and centered by a granule, each with a hooked wire on the reverse formed into a loop supporting a solid-cast figure of Eros, the pair antithetically posed, with one leg advanced, their separately-made wings outstretched, depicted nude, with a baldric formed of beaded wire over one shoulder, each holding a separately-made mantle across his back in one raised hand and one lowered hand, a separately-made kithara in the raised hand of each, the hair with the characteristic central plait
Each: 1½ in. (3.8 cm.) long (2)
Provenance
Private Collection, New York, acquired in the 1980s.
Glenn Alan Sandison Collection, Washington, D.C.
Glenn Alan Sandison Collection, Washington, D.C.
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