A GROUP OF COLOURED GLASS INTAGLIOS after celebrated ancient and neo-classical gems including Phocion, Ethodea and a female figure dressed as a Vestal after Marchant, a head of Raphael and head of Psyche after Pichler, five impressions after Burch, four impressions after Brown, an impression after Harris, and others including portraits of Germanicus, Julia Domna, Livia, Hercules and the young Hercules, Omphale, Diana, George Washington, George IV, Emperor Alexander of Russia, Charles James Fox, Byron etc.

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A GROUP OF COLOURED GLASS INTAGLIOS after celebrated ancient and neo-classical gems including Phocion, Ethodea and a female figure dressed as a Vestal after Marchant, a head of Raphael and head of Psyche after Pichler, five impressions after Burch, four impressions after Brown, an impression after Harris, and others including portraits of Germanicus, Julia Domna, Livia, Hercules and the young Hercules, Omphale, Diana, George Washington, George IV, Emperor Alexander of Russia, Charles James Fox, Byron etc.
The largest 3.2cm. high (43)

Lot Essay

The above group of impressions after signed works is of academic interest to gem collectors for in cases where an original has been lost the glass impression provides a useful record. For the Marchant examples cf. G. Seidmann, Nathaniel Marchant, Gem-Engraver, 1749-1816, Walpole Society (1987) vol.53 nos. 48, 96 (both untraced) and 108 (British Museum)

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