CIRCA LAST QUARTER OF THE 1ST CENTURY B.C.

Details

A ROMAN GLASS CAMEO OF HERMAPHRODITUS
CIRCA LAST QUARTER OF THE 1ST CENTURY B.C.
29 mm. wide

Provenance

G. Sangiorgi collection (1886-1965), Rome.
Private collection, Monaco, 1970s; thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

For another example of the same type of glass cameo showing Hermaphroditus reclining surrounded by three Erotes now in the British Museum, cf. inv. no. 1814,0704.1756, and M.-L. Vollenweider, Die Steinschneidekunst und ihre Künstler in spätrepublikanischer Zeit, Baden-Baden, 1966, no. 35, note 56, pl. 25, 7.

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