Lot 85. A Roman carnelian intaglio ringstone, Circa 1st Century A.D. Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 (€3,600 - 4,800). Photo Bonhams.
The oval gem engraved with a standing figure of a goddess with drapery around her legs, holding a helmet (?) out in her left hand, a pillar behind her, set in a modern gold ring, 15mm length of intaglio; ring size 'O'; 18mm diam of ring hoop
Provenance: Property from a Dutch private Collection, The Netherlands, formed in the 1960s-70s.
Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1977, lot 130.
Vernon Collection, lot 97.
Collection of James, 9th Earl of Southesk.
With William Talbot-Ready (1857-1914), in 1885.
Published: Lady Helena Carnegie, Catalogue of the Collection of Antique Gems Formed by James, Ninth Earl of Southesk, 1908, c. 21
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