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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965) was a principle of the most renowned art-dealing family in Rome. The firm was located at 117 via Ripetta at Palazzo Borghese and was famous for many important auctions, with catalogues written in collaboration with leading scholars. The galleria specialized in ancient art, furniture, ceramics and textiles. As a private collector, Sangiorgi assembled an important ancient glass collection, which he published in 1914. Masterpieces from it were sold in the 1960s and are now the pride of numerous institutions such as the Toledo Museum of Art and the Corning Museum of Glass; the bulk of the collection was sold here at Christie’s New York in June 1999, “Ancient Glass formerly in the G. Sangiorgi Collection.” As with the glass collection, many of the objects in his personal collection, such as the gems presented here, were acquired throughout Europe and never imported into Italy.
A ROMAN AGATE RINGSTONE
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.
细节
A ROMAN AGATE RINGSTONE
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.
With a comic mask depicting a slave, his bald pate with a fringe of hair at the back, with pellet eyes beneath exaggerated brows, a pug nose and a striated beard
11/16 in. (1.7 cm.) long
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.
With a comic mask depicting a slave, his bald pate with a fringe of hair at the back, with pellet eyes beneath exaggerated brows, a pug nose and a striated beard
11/16 in. (1.7 cm.) long
来源
G. Sangiorgi Collection (1886-1965), Rome.
Private Collection, Monaco, 1970s; thence by descent.
Private Collection, Monaco, 1970s; thence by descent.
荣誉呈献
G. Max Bernheimer