Lot 48
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A EUROPEAN ONYX CAMEO WITH TWO ANTELOPE

CIRCA 13TH-14TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER

    Price Realised USD 126,000
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    USD 2,000 - USD 3,000
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    A EUROPEAN ONYX CAMEO WITH TWO ANTELOPE

    CIRCA 13TH-14TH CENTURY A.D. OR LATER

    Price Realised USD 126,000
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    Price Realised USD 126,000
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    115⁄16 in. (4.5 cm.) diameter
    Provenance
    Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965), Rome, acquired and brought to Switzerland, late 1930s; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.
    Literature
    J. Boardman and C. Wagner, Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present, London, 2018, p. 256, no. 240.
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    Lot Essay

    This three-layer cameo, dark brown over white over brown, is sculpted in high relief with two antelope fighting, their heads overlapping. Although Sangiorgi considered this an Alexandrian work, Boardman and Wagner consider this to be Medieval or later in date.
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