XVIEME SIECLE

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CAMEE OVALE EN ONYX SCULPTE REPRESENTANT UN BUSTE DE FEMME
XVIEME SIECLE
Torse nu, la coiffure élaborée ornée d'un diadème, tenant une coupe de fruits cannelée, le regard frontal, tournée légèrement vers la droite; dans une monture oblongue en or; appliquée sur un fond ovale en agate grise, enchâssé dans un cadre d'époque postérieure de forme ovale en vermeil surmonté d'un anneau de suspension
Hauteur: 3.3 cm. (1½ in.), Hauteur totale: 12.5 cm. (5 in.)

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A CARVED OVAL ONYX CAMEO BUST OF A WOMAN
16TH CENTURY
Bare-breasted, with elaborate coiffure and diadem, holding a fluted bowl of fruit, facing front and turned slightly to the right; in an oblong gold mount; applied to an oval grey agate ground within a later silver-gilt oval frame with suspension loop

Similar busts of women wearing jewellery and court dress are in most museum collections. See O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Engraved Gems of the Post Classical Periods in the British Museum (London, 1915), nos. 441, 443.

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On trouve des bustes similaires de femmes revêtant bijoux et habits de cour dans la plupart des musées, voir O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Engraved Gems of the Post Classical Periods in the British Museum (Londres, 1915) nos. 441, 443.

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