CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.

Details

TWO ROMAN GLASS CAMEOS
CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.
41 mm. long max

Provenance

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

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Lot Essay

A similar lost sard intaglio, with profile head of Bacchus wearing a large ivy-leaf wreath, is known by a glass paste, cf. E. Zwierlein-Diehl, Glaspasten im Martin-von-Wagner-Museum der Universität Würzburg, Munich, 1986, p. 132, cat. 237, dated to the third quarter of the 1st Century B.C.

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