Eros
Hellenistic, early 2nd century BC
Terracotta, red, blue and black colour; traces of gilding.
H 39.3 cm
Statuette of an Eros, nude but for a chlamys over his left shoulder and thick-soled sandals, holding an oenochoe in his upraised right hand and a shell serving as a bowl in his left hand, his oval face with fine features, his wavy hair bound in a kekryphalos, with a thick wreath of ivy leaves and berries, perforation at the shoulders for separately-made wings, extensive polychrome details: red on the sandals, crown and lips, black on the eyes, blue on some ivy and traces of gilding on some ivy and berries. Recomposed from large fragments; wings missing.
Published
Freddie Küng, Luzern, Catalogue: Schweizerische Kunst- und Antiquitäten-Messe, Basel 1972, p. 18
Provenance
European private collection.
Accompanied by an Art Loss Register certificate.
Price
on request
Item
7425