Small Wonders: Early Gems and Jewels
Small Wonders: Early Gems and Jewels
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
A Pair of Hellenistic Gold-Disk-and-Eros-Pendant-Earrings and a Gold Eros Pendant, circa 2nd half of the 3rd century B.C
Lot Closed
December 16, 01:03 PM GMT
Estimate
2,400 - 3,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
A Pair of Hellenistic Gold-Disk-and-Eros-Pendant-Earrings and a Gold Eros Pendant
circa 2nd half of the 3rd century B.C
The earrings wearable with the addition of backers; the pendant with a suspension loop for mounting on a necklace or bracelet
Earrings: 3.9 cm. long; pendant: 2.1 cm.long
Carl Leonhardt Burckhardt (b. 1902, Basel, d. 1965, Alexandria)
thence by descent
thence by descent
For a related example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, see https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/251025.