AN ETRUSCAN CARNELIAN SCARAB WITH TWO ATHLETES

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Los 99 | AN ETRUSCAN CARNELIAN SCARAB WITH TWO ATHLETES
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AN ETRUSCAN CARNELIAN SCARAB WITH TWO ATHLETES

CIRCA LATE 5TH CENTURY B.C.

11/16 in. (1.7 cm.) long





Provenance

Robinson collection.

Wyndham Francis Cook (1860-1905), London; thence by descent to his son, Humphrey W. Cook (1893-1978), London.

An Important Collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities and Antique and Renaissance Gems, the Property of Humphrey W. Cook, Esq.; Christie's, London, 14-16 July, 1925, lot 46.

Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965), Rome, acquired and brought to Switzerland, late 1930s; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.



Literature

C. H. Smith and C. A. Hutton, Catalogue of the Antiquities (Greek, Roman and Etruscan) in the Collection of the Late Wyndham Francis Cook, Esq., London, 1908, p. 15, no. 47, pl. 2.

J. Boardman and C. Wagner, Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present, London, 2018, p. 93, no. 81.



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