Lot 47
Lot 47
A EUROPEAN CARNELIAN GEM WITH A CUIRASSED PORTRAIT

CIRCA 18TH-19TH CENTURY

    Price Realised USD 27,720
    Estimate
    USD 4,000 - USD 6,000
    Closed: 14 Apr 2022
    A EUROPEAN CARNELIAN GEM WITH A CUIRASSED PORTRAIT

    CIRCA 18TH-19TH CENTURY

    Price Realised USD 27,720
    Closed: 14 Apr 2022
    Price Realised USD 27,720
    Closed: 14 Apr 2022
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    111⁄16 in. (4.2 cm.) long
    Provenance
    Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965), Rome, acquired by 1933 and brought to Switzerland, late 1930s; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.
    Literature
    L. Curtius, "Ikonographische Beiträge zum Porträt der Römischen Republik und der Julisch-Claudischen Familie," Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abteilung 48, 1933, pp. 192-196, pls. 28, 1 and 29, 1.
    E. Löwy, "Quesiti Intorno All Lupa Capitolina," in Studi Etruschi 8, 1934, p. 83, fig. 1.
    J. Boardman and C. Wagner, Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present, London, 2018, p. 163, no. 149.
    P. Gołyźniak, Engraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus, Oxford, 2020, p. 245, n. 302.
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