A GREEK BLUE CHALCEDONY SCARABOID WITH A HERON CATCHING A FROG

Lot 88
07.12.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 88 | A GREEK BLUE CHALCEDONY SCARABOID WITH A HERON CATCHING A FROG
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£ 10 000 – 15 000
A GREEK BLUE CHALCEDONY SCARABOID WITH A HERON CATCHING A FROG

CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 5TH CENTURY B.C.

13/16 in. (2 cm.) long





Provenance

said to be from Taranto.

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



Literature

G.M.A. Richter, "Unpublished Gems in Various Collections", in American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 61, New York, 1957, p. 264, pl. 81, fig. 5.

J. Boardman, Greek Gems and Finger Rings, London, 1970, 205, fig. 209.

H.C.L. Wiegandt, Die griechischen Siegel der klassischer Zeit: Ikonographischer Vergleich, Frankfurt am Main, 2009, p. 130, no. Eha75, pl. XCI.

J. Boardman and C. Wagner, Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present, London, 2018, p. 60, no. 52.



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