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Details
Three unmounted narrative cameos in agate
One carved in the white layer with Mucius Scaevola holding his hand in the flames of a brazier witnessed by four other figures, grey ground, 3cm. wide; one carved in the white layer with a sleeping nymph attended by four satyrs, pale greyish brown ground, 3.2cm. wide, and a bacchanalian revel in sardonyx depicting a seated female before a statue to divinity, flanked by five figures including satyrs and bacchantes, raised border, 3.5cm. long, all cameos 16th Century (3)
One carved in the white layer with Mucius Scaevola holding his hand in the flames of a brazier witnessed by four other figures, grey ground, 3cm. wide; one carved in the white layer with a sleeping nymph attended by four satyrs, pale greyish brown ground, 3.2cm. wide, and a bacchanalian revel in sardonyx depicting a seated female before a statue to divinity, flanked by five figures including satyrs and bacchantes, raised border, 3.5cm. long, all cameos 16th Century (3)
Provenance
The three cameos Schroder Collection, lot 111 (possibly M. Scaevola holding his hand in the flames, group of men and sleeping nymph, Bacchanalian scene)