Sale 2491
Christie's Special Exhibition Gallery
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7 December 2011
Price realised
USD 2,500
Estimate
A ROMAN RED JASPER RINGSTONE CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D. The flat oval stone engraved with a gryllos, composed of three conjoined masks, including one of Paposilenus, and two youthful satyrs, a pedum and a caduceus in the field 5/8 in. (1.6 cm.) long
Provenance
Private Collection, New York, late 1990s.
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