A Greek bronze box mirror cover with Pan and Eros

circa 300 B.C..

15.5cm. (6in.)

Pan standing on a rocky outcrop holding a staff before a departing Eros, framed by a continuous guilloche border, the hinged cover decorated with circles

Provenance

Acquired by a private collector prior to 1972
Ophiuchus Collection, New York, 1982

Published

I.Love, The Ophiuchus Collection, Florence, 1989, pp. 102-5, no. 17
A.Schwarzmaier, "Griechische Klappspiegel untersuchungen zu typoliogie und stil", Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts Athenische Abteilung, Berlin, 1997, p. 335, no. 247, pl. 19.1

For a related example see M.Comstock and C.Vermeule, Greek Etruscan & Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1971, p. 253, no. 365 and p. 258, no. 370