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CAMEE BROOCH with a silver (800) setting depicting Hector’s …
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65
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CAMEE BROOCH with a silver (800) setting depicting Hector’s …
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
CAMEE BROOCH with a silver (800) setting depicting Hector’s farewell to Andromache.
England, 19th century
Width: 5.5 cm; Total gross weight: 18.41 g
Related bibliography:
- Julius HOFFMANN, *Gemmen und Kameen des Altertums und der Neuzeit*, Stuttgart, George Lippold, 1922; a similar example is reproduced in plate CXLI, no. 5.
- Rudolf RASPE, A descriptive catalogue of a general collection of ancient and modern engraved gems, cameos and intaglios, taken from the most celebrated cabinets in Europe and cast in coloured pastes, white enamel and sulphur, by James Tassie, modeller, London, J. Murray, 1791, nos. 9178 & 9184.
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