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Lot 93*

A Greek terracotta figure of Eros

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Greek terracotta figure of Eros
Hellenistic Period, circa 3rd Century B.C.
Wearing a flat kausia, the round bellied figure with his right arm raised, wings outstretched, nude but for a chlamys secured over the right shoulder, with legs apart, perhaps once riding a dolphin, applied with white slip with pink, red and blue pigment remaining, 17.5cm high

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Provenance:
with Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo, 1978 (Kokusai Bijutsu: Sixth International Art Exhibition, no. 71).

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