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Lot 52 Dα

An 18k gold and sardonyx cameo bracelet

Auction 1158 - overview Cologne
12.11.2020, 14:00 - Jewellery and Gold Boxes
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 6.250 € (incl. premium)
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An 18k gold and sardonyx cameo bracelet

Designed as a band of solid plaquettes with braided decor and connecting rings. The large stepped clasp set with a four layered white and brown sardonyx cameo (ca. 30 x 22 mm). Finely cut in partial high relief depicting Bacchus in a vine leaf crown shouldering a ram. The removable clasp can be worn as a pendant. In the original fitted red leather case. Clasp: H 4, W 3.5 cm. Bracelet: W 4 cm. Total L: 16.5 cm. Total weight 108.6 g.
Presumably Italian, first half 19th C.

The finely carved cameo is based on an Italian Neoclassical design.

Literature

For the prototypes of this cameo cf.: Weber, Geschnittene Steine des 18.- 20. Jh., Munich 1995, p. 82 ff. Cf. also: Berges, Hochste Schönheit und einfache Grazie, Klassizistische Gemmen und Kameen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville, Rahden 2011, p. 194, 195.