ASTA 267 - GLITTICA

A LARGE CITRINE INTAGLIO. DANTE AND BEATRICE.

19th century

Diam. 31x14 mm

The scene depicts a famous episode of the Italian litterature when the poet Dante Alighieri saw Beatrice Portinari walking in Florence. The landscape on the background shows the Florentine bridge on the Arno. The large stone is pointed and faceted in the backside. Nice neo-renaissance revival scene.

Provenance: U.S. private collection, acquired on the art market. This lot is sold under temporary import status.

A GLASS IMPRESSION SET IN A GEORGIAN GOLD RING. ALLEGORICAL MOURNING SCENE.

18th century

Glass 19x22 mm; Int. Size 19x21 mm; 9,53 gr

A draped female figure leans with her right arm on an urn, pointing upwards in the direction of the rays of light coming out of the clouds; in her left arm she holds a scroll with the following inscription: "I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETHJOB XIX 25" .On the base of the plinth the initials ES. Below, a skull. Lovely amber color. Wear marks. Allegorical scene symbolizing the Triumph of the Faith over mortality.

TASSIE- RASPE 14805.

Provenance: U.S. private collection, acquired on the art market. This lot is sold under temporary import status.

A GEORGIAN GOLD MOURNING RING WITH AN AGATE CAMEO. SEATED WOMAN WITH BURNING ALTAR.

18th century

Stone 12x14 mm; Int. Size 16x19 mm; 2,34 gr

The female figure is seated on the ground, in an attitude of sadness and funeral lament. His face is turned towards a burning altar. The cameo is cracked.

Provenance: U.S. private collection, acquired on the art market. This lot is sold under temporary import status.

A GLASS IMPRESSION SET IN A GOLD RING. MASK OF A FAUN.

18th century

Glass 10x12 mm; Int. Size 14,5x15 mm; 4,17 gr

A three layers glass impression after a Renaissance (or ancient?) intaglio with the mask of a faun slightly in three quarter. The depiction is quite close to the n. 714 and n. 668 Marlborough gems. This mask resembles also that of a Centaur from the Parthenon marble frieze of the Centauromachia. Wear marks. Traces of tools on the gold bezel.

Provenance: U.S. private collection, acquired on the art market. This lot is sold under temporary import status.

A GRAND TOUR GLASS IMPRESSION SET IN A GOLD RING. DYONISIAC PROCESSION WITH DRUNK SILENUS.

18th - 19th century

Glass 12x15 mm; int. Size 18x22 mm; 1,65 gr

The scene is composed of Bacchic procession with satyres, Pan playing the flute and a drunken Silenus on a donkey. Groundline. Beneath, signature "ΣΟΛΟΝΕ-Ε". Wear marks.

Provenance: U.K. private collection

A GRAND TOUR GLASS CAST IMPRESSION. MYTHOLOGICAL SCENE.

18th - 19th century

25x32x6,5 mm

On the right, Hercules seated on his lion skin with the club, hands tied behind his back; next to it a double human face like a gryllos. On the left, a standing female figure, probably Dejanira (?) with an Erote riding a creature (a chip prevents the complete reading of the scene). Above, another Erote with a lyre. Probably a Renaissance allegory of the triumph of the Love. The model seems to be inspired by an ancient intaglio from the Granducal Collection called "Sigillo di Nerone" with Apollo and Marsyas. The glass impression instead seems to be stylistically after a Renaissance stone. Wear marks and chips on the edge.

Provenance: U.K private collection

A NEOCLASSICAL AGATE CAMEO SET IN A GOLD RING. DEXTRARUM JUNCTIO.

19th century

Stone 7x8 mm; int. diam 16 mm; 2,32 gr

The thin rounded hoop is surmounted by a high oval box-setting with an agate cameo of Dextrarum Iunctio. Very popular subject during the Roman Age, this effigy represents the marriage union or political alliance.

Provenance: U.K. private collection

AN ORANGE GLASS IMPRESSION SET IN A GOLD RING. HEAD OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

18th - 19th century

Stone 14x16 mm; int. Size 15x21 mm; 5,04 gr

The head of the ruler in Hercules is facing left. The orange glass color is perfectly imitating the carnelian stone.

Provenance: U.K. private collection

A GLASS IMPRESSION SET IN A GOLD FOB SEAL. PORTRAIT OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS KING OF SWEDEN SIGNED JACOBSON.

End of 18th century

Glass 19x22 mm; H 28 mm; 7,80 gr

Grand Tour Era glass impression after an intaglio depicting the portrait of Gustavus Adolphus king of Sweden (1594-1632) by a memebr of the danish Jacobson dinasty of engravers, probably Solomon Aaron Jacobson (1754-1830). Slight wear marks.

Salmonsen's Store Illustrerede Konversations-Lexicon with the JewishEncyclopedia.

Provenance: U.S. private collection, acquired on the art market. This lot is sold under temporary import status.

A GRAND TOUR PONIATOWSKI GLASS CAST IMPRESSION. MENELAUS DESPOILING THE BODY OF PISANDER [CASSANDER].

19th century

32 x 35 x 7 mm

Beautiful mythological scene signed ΚΡΟΜΟΥ (by Kromos). Dark orange color. Wear marks.

This glass impression is after a cornelian intaglio. The original stone is published in Prendeville, J.: Explanatory catalogue of the proof-impressions of the antique gems possessed by the late Prince Poniatowski and now in the possession of John Tyrrell, Esq. (1841): 791. Previous Collections: Catalogue des pierres graves antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): V.62 (Beazley Archive database).



Provenance: U.K. private collection acquired in the british art market.

A LARGE CORAL CAMEO SET IN A GEORGIAN GOLD RING. BEARDED HEAD OF A RIVER GOD.

17th- 18th century

Cameo 17x26 mm; int. Size 19x21,5 mm; 19,19 gr.

With a large chiseled hoop with floral patterns expanding upwards onto an oval bezel set with a large coral cameo; the frontal face is characterized by a thick long beard and moustache, a flat large nose, small globular eyes with heavy eyelids and a protruding front head. The frontality as well as the features reminds some Italian Renaissance masks depicting river gods. Hallmarks inside the bezel (15, 625, b, and stema).This unusual male bearded portrait can be identified with a river god even if, however, the face resembles a Silenus and the hair seems to recall the Asian art.

Provenance: U.K. private collection

A LABRADORITE CAMEO SET IN A GOLD RING. GROTESQUE MASK.

19th century

Cameo 15x17 mm; Int. size 17x20 mm; 8,74 gr

The mask is carved in high relief and is characterized by a crown of leaves and bunches of grapes. The mouth is open in a smiling grin. The eyes are set with two diamonds. The stone has beautiful iridescent blue tones typical of this variety.

Provenance: U.K. private collection