Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
11th July 1910
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/45
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L06 107 -108 109 110 111 113 18 A large cameo, in chalcedony onyx, with figures of Hercules and Omphale in high relief—late 17th Century 1 ficial scene; bust of Pan; head of Jupiter; Europa on bull; head of Bacchus—all of late 17th or 18th Century work, two broken to simulate antique fragments 5 Seven camei: Head of Jupiter ;.Cupid on lion—gold mount ; lion attacking a bull; head of Mercury; female head— gold mount; dying gladiator; male head—all of the 18th or 19th Century 7 Six camei: Achilles tempted by the offer of arms; Nyx in biga; head of Pan; bearded head, facing; head of Jupiter; grotesque combination of male head, lion, eagle and dolphins—all of the 18th and 19th Centuries 6 Six camei; Bacchus and Nymph; lion; group, with woman holding the Palladium and three other figures ; man with mask; Bacchante and panther; Hercules and the lion—all well engraved works of the 18th and 19th Centuries 6 Six camei, in sardonyx, &c.: Venus and Adonis (in gold rim) group of men and sleeping Nymph; Satyr and Nymph; M. Scaevola holding his hand in the flames; Bacchanlian scene; Cupid with butterfly—all of late Renatssance date and engraved im the antique manner 6 Hight camei: Dog (wm metal mount); poet with scroll; Dionysos and Ariadne; Satyr and Faun ; Cupid catching a butterfly ; Satyr dancing before a seated man ; Hercules and Omphale; Jupiter Olympus—all well engraved modern gems 8 Ten camei: Cupid and Psyche; Erosand Anteros; lion and ram; female figure, with staff and vase; Bacchus and Ariadne; man with wreath; Silenos on an ass; two Maenads before a Bacchic term ; Diomedes with Palla-
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