Lot Essay
Ce portrait s'apparente à un exemple illustré dans R. Gennaioli, Le Gemme dei Medici al Museo degli Argenti, Florence, 2007, p. 190, no. 86.
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DEUXIEME MOITIE DU XVIEME SIECLE
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CAMEE OVALE EN AGATE SCULPTEE REPRESENTANT LA TETE D'UN JEUNE HOMME NOIR
DEUXIEME MOITIE DU XVIEME SIECLE
Les cheveux courts bouclés et les lèvres charnues, de profil tourné vers la gauche; dans un cadre ovale d'époque postérieure, en bronze doré, bordé de dragons et monté sur une colonne cylindrique
Hauteur: 3.8 cm. (1½ in.), Hauteur totale: 12.5 cm. (5 in.)
DEUXIEME MOITIE DU XVIEME SIECLE
Les cheveux courts bouclés et les lèvres charnues, de profil tourné vers la gauche; dans un cadre ovale d'époque postérieure, en bronze doré, bordé de dragons et monté sur une colonne cylindrique
Hauteur: 3.8 cm. (1½ in.), Hauteur totale: 12.5 cm. (5 in.)
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A CARVED OVAL AGATE CAMEO HEAD OF A BLACK YOUTH
SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
With short curly hair and full lips, facing in profile to the left; in a later oval gilt-bronze frame flanked by dragons and mounted on a cylindrical column
The present portrait compares with an example illustrated in R. Gennaioli, Le Gemme dei Medici al Museo degli Argenti (Florence, 2007), p. 190, no. 86.
SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
With short curly hair and full lips, facing in profile to the left; in a later oval gilt-bronze frame flanked by dragons and mounted on a cylindrical column
The present portrait compares with an example illustrated in R. Gennaioli, Le Gemme dei Medici al Museo degli Argenti (Florence, 2007), p. 190, no. 86.
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