拍品專文
For another bloodstone scorpion cf. I. Weber, Geschnittene Steine des 18 bis 20 Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1995, no. 273
細節
Four gold-mounted intaglio rings
One octagonal with a bloodstone scorpion, 18th Century; one in grey chalcedony with Cupid riding on a hound sounding a horn; one in amethyst with a reptile in nautilus shell body devouring a hare, corded border and scaraboid back, and one with a hippocamp on raised citrine, all early 19th Century, three with modern mounts (4)
One octagonal with a bloodstone scorpion, 18th Century; one in grey chalcedony with Cupid riding on a hound sounding a horn; one in amethyst with a reptile in nautilus shell body devouring a hare, corded border and scaraboid back, and one with a hippocamp on raised citrine, all early 19th Century, three with modern mounts (4)
來源
The third ring Schroder Collection, lot 23 (possibly hippocamp)