CAMEE OVALE EN HELIOTROPE SCULPTE REPRESENTANT LA TETE DE L'EMPEREUR TRAJAN
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CAMEE OVALE EN HELIOTROPE SCULPTE REPRESENTANT LA TETE DE L'EMPEREUR TRAJAN

XVIEME OU XVIIEME SIECLE

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CAMEE OVALE EN HELIOTROPE SCULPTE REPRESENTANT LA TETE DE L'EMPEREUR TRAJAN
XVIEME OU XVIIEME SIECLE
Couronné de laurier, de profil tourné vers la droite; dans une bordure rectangulaire ajourée en bronze doré, appliquée sur un fond ovale en héliotrope, enchâssé dans un cadre ovale d'époque postérieure en bronze doré, orné de feuilles d'acanthe, surmonté d'un anneau de suspension
Hauteur: 2 cm. (¾ in.), Hauteur totale: 9 cm. (3½ in.)
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A CARVED HELIOTROPE CAMEO HEAD OF THE EMPEROR TRAJAN
16TH OR 17TH CENTURY
Wreathed with laurel, facing in profile to the right; in a rectangular openwork gilt-bronze surround applied to an oval heliotrope ground within a later oval gilt-bronze frame with repeating acanthus border, suspension loop

For a similar example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 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 un exemple similaire au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York, consulter le Catalogue of the Post Classical Cameos in the Milton Weil Collection (Vienne, 1932, no 45, pl. XIX) de E. Kris

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