Lot 1015* - A214 Works of Art & Decorative Arts - jeudi, 18. septembre 2025, 13h30
A PENDANT EARRING WITH EROS - former Kofler-Truniger collection
Hellenistic, 3rd–2nd century BC.
Gold. The disc decorated with a rosette, the pendant designed as a winged Eros with a bowl and staff in his hands; a decorative band crosses his body.
4.7 cm. Total weight 5 g.
Wings slightly bent. Eros with small cracks to the sides.
Provenance:
- Auction Dr. F. X. Weizinger & Co., Munich, October 28–31, 1918, lot 986, ill 34.
- Probably auctioned by Theodor Fischer, Lucerne, June 13–17, 1950, lot 812 (acquired June 17, 1950, according to index card).
- Collection Ernst and Marthe Kofler-Truniger (1903–1990 & 1918–1999), Lucerne (inv. no. K732), acquired from the above.
- Swiss private collection, Lucerne, acquired from the above in ca. 1974.
- By inheritance in the same Swiss family collection, Lucerne.
Exhibited:
Literature:
See Frederick Henry Marshall: Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum, London 1911, p. 532 (plate XXXIII, fig. 1889, 1890, 1915) and Aleksandr Ivanovich Nélidov and Ludwig Pollak: Klassisch-Antike Goldschmiedearbeiten im Besitze Sr. Excellenz A. J. von Nelidow, Leipzig 1903, p. 228 (plate VIII, fig. 57).
CHF 4 000 / 6 000 | (€ 4 120 / 6 190)
Vendu pour CHF 3 000 (frais inclus)
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