CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN GARNET FEMALE CAMEO BUST
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
1.7 cm. high

Provenance

Set within a late 17th Century enamel mount.
English private collection, prior to 1980.

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Lot Essay

The female is depicted with wavy, centrally parted hair, looking to her left and wearing a garment with decorated collar. Set within a late 17th Century polychrome enamelled floral border suspended from a trefoil surmount, the reverse with a white flowerhead on a blue enamel ground.

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