拍品 165
165
A GREEK AGATE BARREL WITH A HERON
PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK CITY PRIVATE COLLECTION
A GREEK AGATE BARREL WITH A HERON

CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 450-425 B.C.

細節
A GREEK AGATE BARREL WITH A HERON
CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 450-425 B.C.
¾ in. (2 cm.) long
來源
Humfry G.G. Payne (1902-1936), Oxford and Athens; thence by descent to his widow, Elizabeth Dilys Powell (1901-1995), London.
The Property of Miss Dilys Powell, C.B.E. (Mrs. Leonard Russell), from the Collection of Humfry Payne; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 10-11 December 1992, lot 249.
with Dr. Elie Borowski (1913-2003), Toronto and Jerusalem; thence by descent.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2011.
出版
J. Boardman, Greek Gems and Finger Rings, London, 1970, p. 428, no. 130.
G.M. Bernheimer, Ancient Gems from the Borowski Collection, Ruhpolding, 2007, p. 45, no. CG-9.

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Hannah Fox Solomon
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拍品專文

Most gems of the Classical Period take the form of the scarab beetle or scaraboid. More rarely the Greeks used a sliced cylinder or a barrel-shaped bead, as seen here. Greek barrel seals typically have a single figure, often a heron, meant to be impressed rather than rolled in the Near Eastern manner. For other examples see pls. 518-519 in J. Boardman, op. cit., and no. 55 in Boardman and C. Wagner, Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present.

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