Lot 437
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CAMEE OVALE EN HELIOTROPE SCULPTE REPRESENTANT LA TETE D'UN EMPEREUR
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CAMEE OVALE EN HELIOTROPE SCULPTE REPRESENTANT LA TETE D'UN EMPEREUR

FIN DU XVIEME OU XVIIEME SIECLE

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CAMEE OVALE EN HELIOTROPE SCULPTE REPRESENTANT LA TETE D'UN EMPEREUR
FIN DU XVIEME OU XVIIEME SIECLE
Couronné de laurier, présenté de profil tourné vers la gauche; dans une monture ovale en bronze doré sur un fond poncé, enchâssé dans une épitaphe d'époque postérieure en ébène, incrustée de pierres dures et de marbre moucheté
Hauteur: 8.5 cm. (3¼ in.), Hauteur totale: 29 cm. (11½ in.)
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A CARVED OVAL HELIOTROPE CAMEO HEAD OF AN EMPEROR
LATE 16TH OR 17TH CENTURY
Wreathed with laurel, facing in profile to the left; in an oval gilt-bronze mount on pounced ground within a later ebony epitaph frame inlaid with hardstones and variegated marble

For a parallel in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, derived from a series of 15th century plaquettes, see E. Kris, Catalogue of the Post Classical Cameos in the Milton Weil Collection (Vienna, 1932), no. 45, pl. XIX.

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Pour une oeuvre comparable au Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, issue d'une série de plaquettes du XVème siècle, voir E. Kris, Catalogue of the Post Classical Cameos in the Milton Weil Collection (Vienne, 1932), no. 45, pl. XIX.

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