A PAIR OF PARTHIAN GOLD EARRINGS IN THE FORM OF WINE-SKINS, the hoop bearing a nude feminine figure (usually identified as Eros) with curling hair drawn back in a ribbed coiffure with central double chignon, hands on hips, two coils above the shoulders, surmounting a pendant in the form of a wine-skin finely decorated with granulation work, circa 1st Century B.C./A.D.

A PAIR OF PARTHIAN GOLD EARRINGS IN THE FORM OF WINE-SKINS, the hoop bearing a nude feminine figure (usually identified as Eros) with curling hair drawn back in a ribbed coiffure with central double chignon, hands on hips, two coils above the shoulders, surmounting a pendant in the form of a wine-skin finely decorated with granulation work, circa 1st Century B.C./A.D.

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The 'Eros' hoops with enlarged heads are typical of the Eastern fringes of the Classical world. For a pair of similar earrings, allegedly from Haftashan on the Iran/Iraqi border, cf. Christie's, London, 16 July 1985, lot113. For another example, formerly in the Nelidow collection and found in Asia Minor, cf. L. Pollak, Klassisch-antike Goldschmiedearbeiten, Leipzig, 1903, no. 74

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