ANGELO ANTONIO AMASTINI (1754-1816), ITALIAN, ROME, CIRCA 1800 | CAMEO WITH A BACCHANTE

Two cameos by Amastini are in the Staatliche Münzsammung Munich and a further hardstone cameo of a Bacchante similarly signed is in the British Museum (inv. 1978,1002.253), where the research notes suggest that the signature was used by Angelo Amastini, who was born in Fossombrone and worked in Rome in the late eighteenth century. A cameo with a classical head is in the in the Hermitage, signed A.T. AMASTINI and first recorded in the collection in 1830. Forrer (op. cit.) records a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris.

RELATED LITERATURE

L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, London, 1902-1930, vol. III, p. 608; I. Weber, Geschnittene Steine des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts, Staatliche Münzsammlung München, Munich, 1995, nos. 84 and 85