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Lot 331 - Auction 54

A Grand Tour transparent glass cast, drawn from an intaglio. Discobolus. The cast is drawn from a carnelian intaglio, ... Read more

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A Grand Tour transparent glass cast, drawn from an intaglio. Discobolus. The cast is drawn from a carnelian intaglio, British Museum, coll. Cracherode (1799), mentioned in the Paoletti repertoire as "Un giuocatore al Disco". The specimen, finely detailed, has been polished (the engraved figure) and mounted in a ring at that time; afterwards it was unmounted. Light wear marks. For comparisons: L.P.B.Stefanelli, La collezione Paoletti, vol. I, p. 156 n. 564; Cades 43, IV F, 34. First half of the 19th century.
15 x 11 x 1 mm.

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