CAMEE OVALE EN SARDOINE SCULPTEE REPRESENTANT LA TETE DE MEDUSE
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CAMEE OVALE EN SARDOINE SCULPTEE REPRESENTANT LA TETE DE MEDUSE

XVIIEME SIECLE

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CAMEE OVALE EN SARDOINE SCULPTEE REPRESENTANT LA TETE DE MEDUSE
XVIIEME SIECLE
Des ailes au-dessus du front, des serpents sifflant dans ses cheveux, le regard fixe, la bouche ouverte, présentée de face; dans une monture ovale en or sur un fond octogonal en agate tigrée, enchâssé dans un cadre associé en bronze doré, gravé à motif de feuilles d'acanthe, ornée de deux plaques de cornaline et de deux plaques de lapis-lazuli
Hauteur: 12 cm. (3¼ in.), Hauteur totale: 20 cm. (8 in.)
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A CARVED OVAL SARDONYX CAMEO HEAD OF MEDUSA
17TH CENTURY
Wings above her brow, snakes hissing in her hair, eyes staring, mouth open, facing front; in an oval gold mount applied to an octagonal banded agate ground within an associated gilt-bronze frame engraved with trails of acanthus leaves and decorated with two cornelian and two lapis lazuli plaques

For a similarly expressive example see J. Draper, 'Cameo Appearances' in, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (New York, 2008) p. 30, no. 59.

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Pour un exemple similaire voir J. Draper, 'Cameo Appearances' dans The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (New York, 2008) p. 30, no. 59.

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