Lot Essay
Cf. M. Henig, The Content Family Collection of Ancient Cameos, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1990, pp. 42-43, nos. 69-71, for similar cameos with coiffure of Lucilla type.
3RD CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN GOLD AND CAMEO RING
3RD CENTURY A.D.
The gold ring hoop broadening to a box-setting on the bezel, in which is set the banded agate cameo carved with a draped female bust in profile to the right, her hair caught back in plaited chignon at nape of neck, white on blue-grey background, chip to nose
1.5 cm. internal diam.
3RD CENTURY A.D.
The gold ring hoop broadening to a box-setting on the bezel, in which is set the banded agate cameo carved with a draped female bust in profile to the right, her hair caught back in plaited chignon at nape of neck, white on blue-grey background, chip to nose
1.5 cm. internal diam.