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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