Property from a private British Collection - Lots 1 – 🎃15
The Glyptics, Italian, 17th - 19th centu💖ry | Choker
Auction Closed
December 7, 11:28 AM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a private British Collectiඣon - Lots 1 – 15
French or Italian, circa 1810
The Glyptics, Italian, 17th - 19th century
Choker
chalcedony, enamel and cloth
adorned with:
an Italian, late 18th-century, cameo with Venus fishing for the 🔯Genius of Charm, amongst🍒 cupids;
an Italian, late 18th-/ early 19th-century cameo w꧒ith Medusa;
an Ita✃lian, late 18th-🃏/ early 19th-century cameo with a Roman patrician;
a Northern Italian, probably 17th-century c𓂃ameo with Minerva;
an Italian, lat♛e 18th-/ early 19th-century cameo with a Roman matron;
an Italian, 18th-century cameo Venus bathing;
an Italian, 18th-century cameo with Hercules;
an Italian, late 18th-/ earlꦕy 19th-cent♏ury cameo a Satyr;
an Italian, late 1🍬8th-/ early 19th-century cameo a Roman woman with a diadem;
and ten an Italian, ea🐠rly 19th-century intaglios with an🌌imals
Cameo with Venꦯus fishing amongst cupids: 2cm.,¾in.
Cameo with Medusa: 2.4cm.,⅞in.
Cameo with a profile of a💮 Roman patrician: 2.5cm., 1in.
Cameo with Minerva: 2.8cm., 1.1in.
Cameo with a Roman Matron: 2.8cm., 1.1in.
Cameo with Venus bathing: 2.7cm., 1in.
Cameo with the head of Hercules: 2.5cm., 1in.
Cameo with a Satyr: 2.3cm.,⅞in.
Cameo with a Roman woman with a diadem: 2cm.🗹, ¾ in.
ten intaglios with animals: 0.5cm., ¼ in.
32cm., 12 1/2 in. overall
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, on long term loan (re🤪f. LOAN:MET ANON.104-1968)