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A SILVER ROUNDEL PENDANT WITH APHRODITE AND EROS, ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY
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06月27日 下午5点 开拍
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A SILVER ROUNDEL PENDANT WITH APHRODITE AND EROS, ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY

Finely worked to depict the goddess of love with a pair of wings, pushing against a nude male figure seated on a cliff as she passionately kisses him, enclosed within a plain circular band set to the top with a loop.

Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.
Condition: Very good condition, commensurate with age. Wear, casting irregularities, small losses, scattered nicks and scratches, dents, and expected tarnish.

Weight: 102.1 g
Dimensions: Height 8 cm, Diameter 7 cm

Literature comparison:
Compare a related plaster emblema with Aphrodite and Eros, ca. 1st-2nd century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1996.472, where the curator notes, “[s]imilar plaster emblema from the Mediterranean were found at the Afghan site of Begram. Such trade goods were particularly important for the transmission of classical motifs and styles”. Compare a related gold plaque with Aphrodite and Eros found in Tillya tepe, Tomb II, dated 1st century AD, in the National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul, accession number MK 04.40.113, and illustrated by Pierre Cambon, Afghanistan: Les trésors retrouvés, Collections du Musée National de Kaboul, 2007, p. 173, no. 60. See also a Seleucid or Parthian clay group of Eros and Psyche in a kissing embrace, dated 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD, 11 cm high, in the British Museum, registration number Sp-III,+.21.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Bonhams New York, 17 March 2014, lot 70
Price: USD 22,500 or approx. EUR 29,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A silver embossed roundel, ancient region of Gandhara, circa 1st century
Expert remark: Compare the similar material and related modeling, subject, and size (8.6 cm).

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拍品估价:800 - 1,600 欧元 起拍价格:800 欧元  买家佣金: 35.00%

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