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GOLD NECKLACE AND EARRINGS
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GOLD NECKLACE AND EARRINGS
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Estimate €10,000 - €15,000
Voluntary lot
Description
GOLD NECKLACE AND EARRINGS
Hellenistic art, 4th–3rd century BC
Set comprising a necklace with a braided chain, each end of which is fitted with a lion’s protome featuring fastenings, as well as a pair of earrings consisting of a cup-shaped piece decorated with filigree spirals and a four-petalled rosette, supporting a figure of a winged Eros holding a torch. Beneath the Eros figures, there is a hook which would formerly have been used to suspend a pearl, now missing.
Length (necklace): 34 cm
Height (earrings): 2.8 cm
Gross total weight: 23.28 g
Provenance: Former collection from southern Germany
Gorny & Mosch, Munich, 11 July 2006: lot 122 (ill.)
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2008
Exhibitions: Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA119a-b)
Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, 13 April – 26 October 2025
Bibliography: Gorny & Mosch, Auction 150, Munich, 11 July 2006, lot 122
J. M. Eisenberg, *Art of the Ancient World*, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2007, vol. XVIII, p. 68, fig. 167
A. Schubert, ‘Cleopatra VII’ in *Historisches Museum Der Pfalz Speyer* (ed.), Caesar & Cleopatra, 2025, p. 105 (the ear pendants)
Hellenistic gold necklace and pair of gold ear pendants,
4th–3rd century BC.
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