XIXEME SIECLE

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CAMEE OVALE EN AGATE SCULPTEE REPRESENTANT LA TETE DE MEDUSE
XIXEME SIECLE
Ailée, des serpents sifflant dans ses cheveux et enroulés autour de son cou, de profil tournée vers la droite, dans une monture ovale en or appliquée sur un fond en jaspe, enchâssé dans un cadre associé en bronze doré décoré de fleurs et de feuillages, surmonté d'un masque en espagnolette

Hauteur: 2.5 cm. (1 in.), Hauteur totale: 8 cm. (3¼ in.)

Provenance

Paul Wallraf, Londres.

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A CARVED OVAL AGATE CAMEO HEAD OF MEDUSA
19TH CENTURY
Winged, snakes hissing in her hair and twisted around her neck, facing in profile to the right; in an oval gold mount applied to a jasper ground within an associated gilt-bronze frame decorated with flowers and leaves, surmounted by an espagnolette mask

For a similar cameo by Luigi Isler (d.1901), see The Art of Gem Engraving from Alexander the Great to Napoleon III (Tokyo, 2008) no. 162, and another attributed to Luigi Saulini illustrated in E. Kris, Catalogue of Postclassical cameos in the Milton Weil Collection (Vienna, 1932) fig. 119.

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Pour un exemple similaire par Luigi Isler (d. 1901), voir The Art of Gem Engraving from Alexander the Great to Napoleon III (Tokyo, 2008) no. 162, et pour un autre exemple attribué à Luigi Saulini voir E. Kris, Catalogue of Postclassical cameos in the Milton Weil Collection (Vienne, 1932) fig. 119.

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