Details

Six unmounted agate cameos
A pinkish agate example with the head of Paris in profile to the right, late 18th Century, 2.5cm. high; a small cornelian head of a youth threequarter facing, 19th Century; a small reddish brown portrait of Socrates in profile to the right, circa 1800; a speckled reddish brown agate profile of an Imperial youth facing left, late 18th Century, 2.5cm. high; a reddish brown jasper profile of a faun facing right, 18th Century, 2.5cm. high, and a small sardonyx cameo of a bacchant in profile to the right, vine leaves in his flowing locks,
circa 1800, 2.3cm. high (6)

Provenance

The third cameo Schroder Collection, lot 130 (possibly Socrates)