Old Master Sculpture & Early Jewels

Old Master Sculpture & Early Jewels

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Italian, late 18th/ early 19th century

Intaglio with the Head of Antipater

Lot Closed

July 5, 03:32 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Italian, late 18th/ early 19th century 

Intaglio with the Head of Antipater


carnelian, within a later ring mount

inscribed in Greek Letters: ANTIPATROS and bearing the signature: MYRON 

Prince Stanislas Poniatowski (1754-1833);
his sale, Christie's, London, 1839, lot 728;
John Tyrell
Catalogue des pierres graves antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski, 1830-1833, vol. VIII. no. 1.79;
Beazley Archive, Classical Art Research Centre, Oxford University [https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/recordDetails.asp?recordCount=4&start=0; accessed 15 June 2022]

intaglio 21mm., 7/8in.
ring size K 1/2