Lot 159
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AN ENAMEL AND GOLD FIBULA, BY MELILLO
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AN ENAMEL AND GOLD FIBULA, BY MELILLO

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AN ENAMEL AND GOLD FIBULA, BY MELILLO
The white enamelled winged Eros riding a shaft with lion's head terminal decorated with green enamel filigree vines and white enamel rosettes, circa 1875, 6.0 cm. long, in original Giacinto Melillo, Napoli, wooden fitted case
Literature
S. Weber Soros, S. Walker, Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry, BGC Yale, New Haven, 2004, p. 329
Exhibited
The Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry exhibition, Somerset House, London, 2005, No. 256
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

It is noted that this type of brooch is a 6th century B.C. Etruscan fibula, yet the Eros figure is derived from 4th century B.C. Greek prototypes.

Cf. C. Gere, J, Rudoe, H. Tait, T. Wilson, The Art of the Jeweller - A Catalogue of the Hull Grundy Gift to the British Museum: vol., British Museum Publications, London, 1984, p. 151, No. 961

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