Details
A group of five gold-mounted intaglio rings
One in sard with a tamed recumbent lion placing its paw in the hand of a winged Cupid who blows a horn (symbolising power and love); another in cornelian with a beast resembling a large cat lying curled asleep, the coiled serpent border symbolising eternity; another with two confronted cockerels at an upturned basket-of-flowers; another with a zodiacal crab (cancer) and one in sard with a kneeling centaur, an arrow through his chest (Nessus wounded by Hercules), all late 18th early 19th Century, one mount modern (5)
One in sard with a tamed recumbent lion placing its paw in the hand of a winged Cupid who blows a horn (symbolising power and love); another in cornelian with a beast resembling a large cat lying curled asleep, the coiled serpent border symbolising eternity; another with two confronted cockerels at an upturned basket-of-flowers; another with a zodiacal crab (cancer) and one in sard with a kneeling centaur, an arrow through his chest (Nessus wounded by Hercules), all late 18th early 19th Century, one mount modern (5)
Provenance
Baron Schroder Collection, Christie's, 11 July 1910, lot 17 (possibly intaglio rings with figures of birds, animals etc.), lot 23 (possibly centaur)