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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.
SIX ROMAN STONE RINGSTONES
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Details
SIX ROMAN STONE RINGSTONES
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Including one of lapis lazuli with Minerva, wearing a long peplos and a helmet, holding a spear in her right hand, resting her left hand on the rim of her circular shield, on a short groundline; and five of carnelian, one with a draped female standing before a statue of Apollo holding a sprig of laurel, the female offering an amphora, on a groundline, enclosed within a hatched border; one with a frontal draped bust of winged Victoria, a palm branch over her left shoulder; one with a standing draped Fortuna holding a ship's rudder and a cornucopia, an inscription in the field, OPPTA TA; one with a standing draped figure before a column, on a groundline, perhaps unfinished; and one with a standing figure, on a groundline, perhaps unfinished
Largest: 5/8 in. (1.5 cm.) long
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Including one of lapis lazuli with Minerva, wearing a long peplos and a helmet, holding a spear in her right hand, resting her left hand on the rim of her circular shield, on a short groundline; and five of carnelian, one with a draped female standing before a statue of Apollo holding a sprig of laurel, the female offering an amphora, on a groundline, enclosed within a hatched border; one with a frontal draped bust of winged Victoria, a palm branch over her left shoulder; one with a standing draped Fortuna holding a ship's rudder and a cornucopia, an inscription in the field, OPPTA TA; one with a standing draped figure before a column, on a groundline, perhaps unfinished; and one with a standing figure, on a groundline, perhaps unfinished
Largest: 5/8 in. (1.5 cm.) long
Provenance
G. Sangiorgi Collection (1886-1965), Rome.
Private Collection, Monaco, 1970s; thence by descent.
Private Collection, Monaco, 1970s; thence by descent.
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