CIRCA MID-1ST CENTURY B.C.

Details

A ROMAN BLUE GLASS CAMEO OF A DANCING MAENAD
CIRCA MID-1ST CENTURY B.C.
39 mm. long

Provenance

G. Sangiorgi collection (1886-1965), Rome.
Private collection, Monaco, 1970s; thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
G. Sangiorgi, 'Nuovi Acquisti Della Mia Collezione Di Pietre Incise', in Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung 48, 1933, pp. 294-296, pl. 49, 1.

This cameo belongs to a glyptic series of dancing maenads and satyrs inspired by Neo-Attic reliefs. For another glass cameo with similar motif, cf. C. Weiss, Die antiken Gemmen der Sammlung Heinrich Dressel in der Antikensammlung Berlin, Würzburg, 2007, no. 719.

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