3RD-5TH CENTURY A.D.

細節

A CABOCHON GARNET PORTRAIT INTAGLIO OF A SASSANIAN KING
3RD-5TH CENTURY A.D.
With profile bearded head, his hair braided and falling down in ringlets at the back, wearing a drop earring, holding a long stemmed lily in his hand, in 19th Century ring setting
1.8 x 1.2 cm.; 1.8 cm. across inner hoop

來源

Lace collection.
Rollin and Feuardent collection, Paris.
Collection of James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk (1827-1905); acquired F. Whelan, London agent for Rollin and Feuardent, 1878.

注意事項

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拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
Lady Helena Carnegie (ed.), Catalogue of the collection of antique gems formed by James, Ninth Earl of Southesk, K.T., London, 1908, vol. II, p. 1, pl. I, no. P1.

Cf. Exhibition catalogue, Hofkunst van de Sassanieden, Brussels, 1993, p. 280, no. 134 for similar.