A rare carnelian ringstone with gold mount

NORTHWESTERN FRONTIER, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY

细节

A rare carnelian ringstone with gold mount
Northwestern Frontier, circa 5th century
The carnelian finely carved in intaglio with a prancing horse
9/16 in. (1.2 cm.) diameter

来源

Japanese Collection, 1980s

拍品专文

For a ringstone carved in similar intaglio design with a lion, in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, dated to the fifth century Gupta period and from the Northwest frontier of India, see M. Henig, Classical Gems, 1994, cat. no. 482, p. 215.