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Lot 211 - Auction 107

A fine fragmentary roman agate cameo set in gold ring with repair. Artemis's legs.
Estimate:
5.000,00/6.000,00 £
Starting price:
4.000,00 GBP
Price realized:
4.000,00 GBP
Bids:
1

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Lot status:
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Description

A fine fragmentary roman agate cameo set in gold ring with repair. Artemis's legs.

1st century B.C. - 1st century A.D.


Stone 11 x 16 mm (fragment max. length.); ring size 17 x 19 mm; 20,27 gr



Fragment of a roman agate cameo of high quality, depicting Artemis bathing (bending woman standing, the left foot on a small pedestal and the right foot on the ground), probably inspired by Ovid's classic story from the Metamorphosis: in that episode Acteon, while resting during a hunt, happens to see Artemis bathing in a nearby pool. To prevent him boasting that he had seen her naked, she changes him in a stag, whereupon his own group of hounds tears him to pieces. The cameo, even if a fragment has a very high quality. The larger missing part is repaired with a gold flat integration.

From the coll. Richard Trescott (1941-2018), London.

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