Lot 143 - E-Live Auction 56

Attractive neoclassical intaglio on an high bull’s eye sardonyx. Jupiter’s rape of Europa (Europa on the bull). ... Read more
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Attractive neoclassical intaglio on an high bull’s eye sardonyx. Jupiter’s rape of Europa (Europa on the bull). Very thin internal fracture, not surface-reaching. This is very close to another gem (engraved by Antonio Berini [1770-1861]), illustrated by Georg Lippold (Gemmen und Kameen des Altertums und der Neuzeit, Stuttgart s.d. [1922], pl. CXLIII-9). Its style is more free than that of the gem by Berini (Lucia Pirzio Biroli Stefanelli, La Collezione Paoletti. Stampi in vetro per impronte di intaglio e cammei, vol. II, Roma 2012, p. 291, no. VIII-98; p. 312 n. VIII-389; p. 316 n. VIII-452). The type was also treated by Brown (see Julia O. Kagan, Reznye kamni Vil'yama i Charlza Braunov, St. Petersburg 1976, p. 23, no. 3).; 23x18x6,4 mm;

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