A EUROPEAN SARD RINGSTONE WITH CUPID HOLDING A MASK

Lot 185
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ID 1177599
Lot 185 | A EUROPEAN SARD RINGSTONE WITH CUPID HOLDING A MASK
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A EUROPEAN SARD RINGSTONE WITH CUPID HOLDING A MASK

CIRCA 17TH CENTURY

½ in. (1.3 cm.) long; ring size 7





Provenance

Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1586-1646), Arundel House, London; thence by descent to his wife, Aletheia Talbot Howard (1585-1654), Arundel House, London; thence by gift to her son, Henry Frederick Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel (1608-1652), Arundel House, London; thence by descent to his son, Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (1628-1684), Arundel House, London; thence by descent to his widow, Jane Bickerton Howard (1643-1693), Arundel House, London.

Henry Mordant, 2nd Earl of Peterborough (1621-1697), Drayton House, Northamptonshire, acquired from the above, by 1690; thence by descent to his daughter, Lady Mary Mordant (1659-1705), Drayton House, Northamptonshire; thence by descent to her husband, Sir John Germain (1650-1718), Drayton House, Northamptonshire; thence by descent to his second wife, Lady Elizabeth Germain (1680-1769), Knole House, Kent; thence by descent to her great-niece, Mary Beauclerk (1743-1812), England, given to her on the occasion of her marriage to Charles Spencer (1740-1820), 1762.

George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (1739-1817), Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, gifted from the above, circa 1765; thence by descent to his son, George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough (1766-1840), Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire; thence by descent to his son, George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough (1793–1857), Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire; thence by descent to his son, John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822-1883), Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.

The Marlborough Gems: Being a Collection of Works in Cameo and Intaglio Formed by George, Third Duke of Marlborough, Christie's, London, 28 June-1 July 1875, lot 140.

David Bromilow (1809-1898), Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, acquired from the above; thence by descent to his daughter, Julia Harriet Mary Jary, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire.

The Marlborough Gems: A Collection of Works in Cameo and Intaglio Formed by George, Third Duke of Marlborough, Purchased by the Late David Bromilow, Esq., of Bitteswell Hall, Lutterworth, the Property of Mrs. Jary, Christie's, London, 26-29 June 1899, lot 140.

C. Davis, acquired from the above (according to auctioneer’s book).

M.H. Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1823-1911), Wroughton, Wiltshire; thence by descent to his son-in-law, William Arnold-Forster (1886-1951), Cornwall.

Catalogue of the Story-Maskelyne Collection of Ancient Gems, the Property of W.E. Arnold Forster, Esq., Sotheby's, London, 4-5 July 1921, lot 157.

Browet, acquired from the above (according to auctioneer's book).

Marjorie Bronfman (1917-2012), Montreal, acquired by 1978; gifted to her daughter, Dr. Corinne Bronfman (1947-2022), Washington, D.C.; thence by descent to the current owner.



Literature

18th century manuscript of the Arundel Collection, no. A53 (1), as “Paerulus stans cum ferula.”

A. Fountaine, The Arundel Cabinet, London, 1731, p. 3, no. 53.

N. Story-Maskelyne, The Marlborough Gems: Being a Collection of Works in Cameo and Intaglio Formed by George, Third Duke of Marlborough, London, 1870, p. 23, no. 140.

Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art, London, 1904, p. 191, no. M57.

J. Kagan and O. Neverov, "Lorenz Natter's Museum Britannicum: Gem Collecting in mid-Eighteenth-Century England," Apollo, September 1984, fig. 9.5.

J. Boardman, et al., The Marlborough Gems, Formerly at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, London, 2009, p. 82, no. 126.

J. Boardman, et al., Natter’s Musuem Britannicum: British Gem Collections and Collectors of the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Oxford, 2017, p. 197, no. 466.



Exhibited

Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art, 1904.
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