拍品专文
Item one: for similar, cf. M. Henig, M. Whiting and D. Scarisbrick, Classical Gems, Ancient and Modern Intaglios and Cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1994, p. 132, no. 259.
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CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
细节
A ROMAN NICOLO INTAGLIO OF MERCURY
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
With standing figure of Mercury, naked but for his chlamys draped over his shoulder, holding a money bag and his caduceus, by his side are a ram and a cockerel, on groundline, below possibly a tortoise(?), 1.3 x 1 cm., 1.7 cm. across inner hoop; and a haematite intaglio with Mars, standing with his body frontal and head profile, wearing plumed helmet, cuirass and tunic, holding spear and shield, groundline, possibly 2nd Century A.D., 1.4 x 1 cm., 1.7 cm. across inner hoop, both in later ring settings (2)
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
With standing figure of Mercury, naked but for his chlamys draped over his shoulder, holding a money bag and his caduceus, by his side are a ram and a cockerel, on groundline, below possibly a tortoise(?), 1.3 x 1 cm., 1.7 cm. across inner hoop; and a haematite intaglio with Mars, standing with his body frontal and head profile, wearing plumed helmet, cuirass and tunic, holding spear and shield, groundline, possibly 2nd Century A.D., 1.4 x 1 cm., 1.7 cm. across inner hoop, both in later ring settings (2)
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