Lotto 135 | A Grand Tour dark brown glass cast impression. Priam pleads with Achilles.

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martedì 8 luglio 2025 ore 14:00 (UTC +01:00)

A Grand Tour dark brown glass cast impression. Priam pleads with Achilles.

A Grand Tour dark brown glass cast impression. Priam pleads with Achilles. Impression taken from a sardonyx intaglio by N. Marchant, circa 1784, for Francis Henry Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater (1736-1803), inspired by the sarcophagus coll. Borghese (Louvre, Paris); Cades 66, 409 ("from the bas-relief already in vila Borghese now in Paris"). Late 18th-early 19th century. 30 x 36 x 7 mm