³⁄₄ in. (1.9 cm.) wide

Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965), Rome, acquired and brought to Switzerland, late 1930s; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.

J. Boardman and C. Wagner, Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present, London, 2018, p. 213, no. 199.

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The flat circular stone is engraved with a charging bull before a shrine set on a rocky outcrop. The bull is on a thick groundline with its head lowered and turned out. A gnarled tree rooted in the outcrop fills the space above. The stone is mounted as a ring in a 19th century gold setting.
The subject is known from other gems but the meaning of the association of the bull with the shrine is not known. For a related example and a list of others see no. 657 in E. Zwierlein-Diehl, Glaspaasten im Martin-Von-Wagner-Museum der Universität Würzburg.

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