LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C./EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN GARNET CAMEO FEMALE HEAD
LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C./EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Carved in high relief with a female head, wearing a diadem in her wavy hair, eyes with articulated pupils, small chip to her lower left cheek, 1.7 x 1.3 cm., 2 cm. across inner hoop; and an amber bust of a maenad, the smiling youthful face with wavy hair swept back and wearing an ivy or grape leaf wreath, eyes with articulated pupils, 2nd-3rd Century A.D., 2.8 x 2.1 cm., 2 cm. across inner hoop, both in later ring settings (2)

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Lot Essay

Item one: cf. B. Y. Berry, Ancient Gems from The Collection of Burton Y. Berry, Indiana University Art Museum, 1968, no. 236; and M. Henig, The Content Family Collection of Ancient Cameos, Oxford, 1990, p. 38, no. 63 for similar.

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