ID 888347
Lot 163 | TEN GREEK AND ROMAN QUARTZ ENGRAVED GEMS
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.-3RD CENTURY A.D.
Including a Greek black chalcedony scaraboid with a goat; four Roman carnelian ringstones: one with a portrait head of a man, one with a satyr's mask, one with an eagle's head and one with two intertwined monkeys; two Roman chalcedony ringstones: one with a bovine and the other with a lion attacking a gazelle; two Roman red jasper ringstones: one with a profile head of Zeus Serapis and the other with a gryllos; and a Roman bloodstone ringstone with an Egyptian deity wearing a hemhem crown with a diminutive figure below.
Largest: 5/8 in. (1.5 cm.) long
Provenance
Private Collection, Hamburg, acquired 1955-1965.
Property from a German Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 2001, lot 245.
| Medium: | Cameo glass, Stone |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe, Roman Empire |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Medium: | Cameo glass, Stone |
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| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe, Roman Empire |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
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