CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

Details

A ROMAN AQUAMARINE RING STONE WITH SATYR AND MAENAD
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
19 mm. wide

Provenance

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

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Lot Essay

The theme of a satyr surprising a sleeping Maenad was a popular one in Roman jewellery. For a similar carnelian ring stone cf. D. Willers, Im Glanz der Götter und Heroen: Meisterwerke antiker Glyptik aus der Stiftung Leo Merz, Mainz am Rhein, 2003, p. 92, no. 56. For a similar composition used in a cameo from the Guilhou collection, cf. S. De Ricci, Catalogue of a Collection of Ancient Rings Formed by the late E. Guilhou, Paris, 1912, p. 28, no. 154, pl. III; for a similar scene on a sardonyx cameo with Eros taking part in the mischief now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, cf. inv. no. ГР-12701.

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