Ancient Roman Bronze Handmirror with Silver back decorated with the Story of Cupid the Honey Thief, Venus and the - 9 cm

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- In the tale of Cupid the honey thief, the child-god is stung by bees when he steals honey from their hive. He cries and runs to his mother Venus complaining that so small a creature should not cause such painful wounds. Venus laughs, and points out the poetic justice: he too is small, and yet delivers the sting of love.
The story was first told about Eros in the nineteenth Idyll of Theocritus (3rd century BC) .

- Weight of the Silver: 33 grams.

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Provenance/Known History:

Ex. Private J. T. collection, The Netherlands. Collected in the 1980's.

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