CAMEE OVALE EN ONYX SCULPTE REPRESENTANT LA TETE D'ATHENA
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CAMEE OVALE EN ONYX SCULPTE REPRESENTANT LA TETE D'ATHENA

XVIIIEME SIECLE

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CAMEE OVALE EN ONYX SCULPTE REPRESENTANT LA TETE D'ATHENA
XVIIIEME SIECLE
Portant un casque Corinthien couronné de feuilles d'olivier, son attribut la chouette, en relief, de longues boucles retombant sur ses épaules, de profil tourné vers la gauche; dans une monture ovale en or appliquée sur un fond en agate tigrée, enchâssé dans un cadre associé, perlé, en bronze doré et surmonté d'un noeud de rubans
Hauteur: 2 cm. (3¾ in.), Hauteur totale: 8 cm. (3¼ in.)
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A CARVED OVAL ONYX CAMEO HEAD OF ATHENA
18TH CENTURY
Wearing Corinthian helmet wreathed with olive leaves, and embossed with her attribute the owl, long curls falling onto the shoulder, facing in profile to the left; in an oval gold mount applied to a banded agate ground, within an associated beaded gilt-bronze frame surmounted by ribbons tied in a knot

For similar heads of Athena see G. Lippold, Gemmen und Kameen des Altertums und der Neuzeit, (Stuttgart, 1920), pl. CXVII, nos. 3, 4.

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Pour d'autres exemples similaires, voir G. Lippold, Gemmem und Kameen des Altertums und der Neuzeit (Stuttgart, 1920), pl. CXVII, nos. 3, 4.

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