LOT 0056 Hellenistic Gold Figural Earring - Eros & Amphora
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2nd-1st century BC. A gold earring with open hoop, composed of a nude female figure standing on a cuboidal plinth, with dressed hair and large discoid earrings, two loops below with pendant with coiled wire loop, amphora-shaped feature with scrolled handles and applied granules. See The British Museum, accession number 1856,0909.74, for a very similar figural earring identified as cupid or Eros; see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1995.366, for a similar style of earring; see accession number 74.51.3783, for a similar amphora-shaped earring pendant, undated; see The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 74.51.3608, for a near identical example. 4.19 grams, 50mm (2"). From the private collection of a London antiquarian; previously in the ADC collection, UK; formed in the 1970s. [No Reserve]
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