The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Gold ring with intaglio of seated woman and flying Eros

Art Object

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Eros, God of Love
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Gold ring with intaglio of seated woman and flying Eros

Period:: Classical
Date:: 2nd half of the 5th century B.C.
Culture:: Greek
Medium:: Gold
Dimensions:: Overall: 7 1/16 x 7/16in. (18 x 1.1cm)
Classification:: Gold and Silver
Credit Line:: Purchase, The Bothmer Purchase Fund and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994
Accession Number:: 1994.230.1

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 172

References

de Ricci, S. 1912. Catalogue of a Collection of Ancient Rings Formed by the Late E. Guilhou. Paris: [s.n.], no. 295.

Sotheby's, London, Sale Catalogue, November 9-12, 1937, lot 84, pl. 4.

Boardman, John. 1970. Greek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical. London: Thames & Hudson, p. 418, no. 527.

Boardman, John. and D. Scarisbrick. 1977. The Ralph Harari Collection of Finger Rings. London: Thames and Hudson, pp. 15-16, no. 8.

Milleker, Elizabeth J. 1995. "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1994-1995." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 53(2): p. 11.

Jackson, M. M. 2006. Hellenistic Gold Eros Jewellery. Technique, Style and Chronology. BAR International Series. Oxford, England: Archaeopress, pl. 26.A, 16.
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Women in Classical Greece

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