REPUBLICAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

Name: A ROMAN STRIPED GLASS RINGSTONE WITH A MAENAD
Brand: REPUBLICAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
Price: 2400.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 3,024

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A ROMAN STRIPED GLASS RINGSTONE WITH A MAENAD

REPUBLICAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

Price Realised USD 3,024

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³⁄₄ in. (2 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. 118, no. 106.

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Lot Essay

This ringstone is cast with a maenad dancing on tiptoe, probably a maenad, wearing a short chiton. Her arms are bent at the elbows, with her hands at her breasts. The scene is enclosed within a hatched border. For another of black and white banded glass perhaps cast from the same stone, see no. 74 in M. Henig, The Lewis Collection of Gemstones.