详情
1116 in. (1.7 cm.) diameter
来源
Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965), Rome, acquired and brought to Switzerland, late 1930s; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.
出版
J. Boardman and C. Wagner, Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present, London, 2018, pp. 14-15, no. 9.
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拍品专文

The chimaera was a popular subject for Island Gems (see Boardman, Island Gems, pp. 55-59). Here the monster is of characteristic form: depicted leonine, with a horned goat head at the tip of the wing, and a forked tail possibly representing a snake, all on a double V-shaped groundline.

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