Four gold-mounted intaglio rings

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Four gold-mounted intaglio rings
One in paste simulating cornelian with the winged figure of Nemesis holding up her robe, a laurel branch in her other hand and a snake at her feet; one in banded agate with Omphale walking to the right with Hercules' lion's pelt and club over her shoulder in corded border; another, similar, with the figure of Hermes Psychopompos to the left, cadeuceus in hand, addressing an emergent male head, and one with cornelian figure of Diana, a crescent moon in her hair and a bow in her left hand, all late 18th early 19th Century, modern mounts (4)

Provenance

The first, third and fourth Schroder Collection, lot 16 (possibly Nemesis, Hermes Psychopompos, Artemis), the second lot 23 (possibly Iole)

Lot Essay

For another gem of Nemesis cf. O.M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Engraved Gems of the Post-Classical Period in the British Museum, 1915, no.172
and for Hermes Psychopompos cf. Weber, op.cit., no.293

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