Bertolami Fine Art - Piazza Lovatelli 1, 00186 Roma
ASTA 267 - GLITTICA ASTA 267 - GLITTICA
Friday 7 July 2023 hours 12:30 (UTC +00:00)
A GRAND TOUR CARNELIAN INTAGLIO SET IN A GOLD RING. SEATED MUSE.
A GRAND TOUR CARNELIAN INTAGLIO SET IN A GOLD RING. SEATED MUSE.
End of 18th century
Stone 13 x 17 mm; internal size 17 mm.7.34 gr.
A fully dressed and veiled woman, seated on a chair with turned legs, and holding an ivy leaf up to her face, pensively, contemplates a column on which is seated a boy streatching his arms to her. Footstool and groundline. Behind, a support with an helmet. She is probably a version of a figure of a Muse, after the garnet in hte Cabinet des Medailles (Calpurnie inquiete sur la sort de Cesar, Mariette 1750, pl. 104) which Vollenweider takes to be a portrait of Arsinoe III with an infant Cupid or Bacchus.
D. Scarisbrick, C. Wagner, J. Boardman, The Beverly collection of gems at Alnwick Castle, p. 217
Provenance: U.K private collection from the british art market.