Italian, 18th century | Intaglio with Mars, Venus and Cupid

The model recalls an impression of a gem by Giovanni Bernardi in the Paoletti collection, published in L. Pirzio Biroli Stefanelli, La collezione Paoletti, Stampi in vetro per impronte di intagli e cammei, vol. ii, Rome, 2013, p. 322, no. 604. Note also the 16th-century intaglio with the same subject in the Medici collection, Museo degli Argenti at Palazzo Pitti, Florence (inv. no. 2026).