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Please note that the results listed on this page are inclusive of any Sotheby's Premiums and exclusive of any applicable taxes and costs, unless otherwise noted.
Small Wonders: Early Gems and Jewels
10 December - 16 December 2020 • London

1. A Group of Four Egyptian Stone Scarabs, Circa 1st millennium B.C.

2. A Group of Egyptian Faience Beads and Amulets, New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period, 1539-30 B.C.

3. A Pair of Hellenistic Gold-Disk-and-Eros-Pendant-Earrings and a Gold Eros Pendant, circa 2nd half of the 3rd century B.C

4. A Roman Gold and Garnet Bracelet, circa 1st/2nd century A.D.

5. A Roman Banded Agate Intaglio Ring Stone, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D.

6. A Roman Gold Bracelet and Gold Repousse Disc, circa 1st/2nd century A.D.

7. Southern Italian, probably Sicily, circa 1220-1240 | Cameo with a lioness

8. Southern Italian, probably Palermo, Sicily, circa 1220-1240 | An Important Cameo with the Ascension of the Prophet Elijah to Heaven from the Imperial Treasury of the Holy Roman Emperors

9. Byzantine, 12th/ 13th century | Cameo with the Archangel Saint Michael

10. German, late 15th century | Pendant Crucifix, possibly a guild badge

11. Italian, mid-16th century | Cameo with a Portrait of a Young Man

12. Italian, 16th century | Cameo with an Emperor, probably Galba

14. Italian, 16th century | Intaglio with a Bacchic Procession

15. Italian, 16th century | Cameo with Silenus attended by a Bacchant and a Satyr

16. Spanish, 16th century | Ring

17. Probably Italian, late 16th/ early 17th century | Bracelet set with Intaglios

18. Italian, probably Milan, circa 1600 | Cameo with the Head of a Lion

19. Italian, possibly 17th century | Cameo with a Jugate portrait possibly with Alexander the Great and his mother Olympias Queen of Macedonia

20. Northern Italian, probably 17th century | Hardstone Bust of a Woman

21. Netherlandish, 16th/ 17th century | Miniature Virgin and Child within an Acorn Pendant

22. Italian, probably Sicily, 17th/ 18th century | Cameo with the Head of Christ

23. English or German, 17th century | Acorn locket pendant for bezoar stones

24. Spanish, early 18th century | Fantastical brooch with birds and flowers

25. French, Paris, circa 1670, the case attributed to Gilles Légaré (1610-1685) | Monogrammed Locket with a portrait miniature of a young lady

27. English, 1759 | Mourning Ring for George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)

28. English, dated 1724 | Mourning Ring with a Skeleton

29. Italian, 18th century | Cameo with a Leopard

30. British or Italian, 18th century | Seal with Minerva, surmounted with a hardstone carving of a possibly 17th-century monkey

31. Italian, late 16th century | Cameo with Omphale

32. Italian, Milan, or Bohemian, Prague, circa 1600 | Cameo with a Bust of the Virgin

33. Italian, 17th century | Cameo with a Saint

34. Attributed to the Medici Grand Ducal Workshops, Italian, Florence, circa 1700 | Bust of a Florentine Man

35. Italian, circa 1800 | Cameo with Cupid

36. Italian, circa 1800 | Cameo with Bacchus

37. Italian, early 19th century | Cameo with Apollo and his Lyre

38. Italian, first half 19th century | Cameo with a Helmeted Warrior

39. Italian, 18th century | Cameo with a man holding a theatre mask

40. Italian, circa 1800 | An Exceptionally Large Cameo with the Head of Bacchus

41. Italian, first half 19th century | Cameo with a Warrior wearing a Helmet with a Chimera

42. Circle of Nicola Morelli (1771-1838), Italian, Rome, first third 19th century | Cameo with a Bust of a Bacchante

43. Italian, probably 19th century | Large Cameo with the Virgin and Child

44. Italian, 18th century | Cameo with a Sacrifice

45. Italian, 18th century, After the Antique | Cameo with Orestes and Pylades

46. Italian, late 18th/ early 19th century | Intaglio with a King

47. Italian, circa 1800 | Intaglio with Apollo

48. Italian, 18th century | Cameo with a Herm

49. Italian, late 18th century | Cameo with a Greek Philosopher

50. An Italian or English, 18th century | Intaglio with Julius Caesar