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117 - GOLD NECKLACE AND EARRINGS
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GOLD NECKLACE AND EARRINGS Hellenistic art, 4th–3rd century B.C. Set consisting of a necklace with a braided chain, each end of which is terminated by a lion protome fitted with clasps, as well as a pair of earrings composed of a cup-shaped element decorated with filigree spirals and a four-petaled rosette, supporting a figure of a winged Eros holding a torch. Below the Eros figures is a hook that was once used to suspend a pearl, which is 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, July 11, 2006: no. 122 (ill.) Royal-Athena Galleries, New York Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2008 Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA119a-b) Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, April 13–October 26, 2025 Bibliography: Gorny & Mosch, Auction 150, Munich, July 11, 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 B.C.
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