CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

Details

A ROMAN CARNELIAN RING STONE WITH CRAB
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
17 mm. wide

Provenance

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

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Lot Essay

For the subject matter of the crab cf. M. Henig, Classical Gems, Cambridge, 1994, p. 175, no. 380, and A. Furtwängler, Die Antiken Gemmen, Geschichte der Steinschneidekunst, Leipzig and Berlin, 1900, pl. XXVIII, no. 77.

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