IMPERIAL PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Name: A ROMAN PLASMA RINGSTONE WITH VENUS
Brand: IMPERIAL PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Price: 10000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 12,600

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USD 6,000 - USD 8,000

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A ROMAN PLASMA RINGSTONE WITH VENUS

IMPERIAL PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Price Realised USD 12,600

⁵⁄₈ in. (1.5 cm.) long

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. 186, no. 172.

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Lot Essay

Venus is depicted nude but for a mantle around her legs, her body shown frontally with her head turned in profile. She leans onto a column with her elbow, and holds a palm branch in her lowered hand. In her other hand she holds a plump bird. She is accompanied by two eroti, one holding a pedum and offering her a wreath, and one holding up a mirror.