2005.12.A-B.McD, Eros Lamp Holder

Eros, the Greek god of love, is shown as a beautiful youth with both male and female characteristics. The figure was originally part of a lamp holder and would have had an oil lamp on the tendril he holds in an outstretched hand. The sculpture shares in the expressive, dynamic qualities of later Greek Hellenistic art; it appears to be flying on the beautifully detailed wings. The lamp from which the figure came was probably made in the eastern Mediterranean for a wealthy house or villa in Italy. The bronze has been associated with a trove of Greek luxury goods recovered from an ancient shipwreck near the town of Mahdia on the coast of Tunisia.

Anne Bromberg, DMA unpublished material.

Before 1991: Private European Collection [1]

1991-2005: Artemis Group, London, on consignment to Robert Haber, New York, NY [2]

From 2005: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from Robert Haber & Associates, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., in honor of Anne Bromberg's 30th anniversary with the DMA 

[1] See letter dated January 26, 2005 in Collections Records Object File 2005.12.A-B.McD

[2] See letter dated March 21, 1991 in the Collections Records Object File 2005.12.A-B.McD

44997586: UMO. Hear about Hellenistic Greece, and luxury goods like the Eros lamp holder.

12936838: UMO. Collections smARTphone video; Bromberg, Anne R. discusses the Greek Eros lamp holder, (DMA collection, 2005.12.A-B.McD)

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