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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BRITISH COLLECTION, LOTS 1 – 15
ITALIAN, CIRCA 1800
CAMEO WITH A ROMAN PATRICIAN
chalcedony, within a mount
intaglio: 18mm., 5/8in.
22mm.,⅞in.overall
PROVENANCE
By tradition, Joséphine Bonaparte, Empress of France (1763- 1814);
Possibly acquired from the Empress Joséphine (or her estate)
by Lord Edward Lascelles, “ Beau Lascelles” (1764-1814);
Thence by descent to his grand-niece Catherine, Mrs Granville
Edwin Lloyd-Baker (1841-1890);
Thence by family descent to the present owner
EXHIBITED
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, on long term loan
(ref: LOAN:MET ANON.105&A-1968)
The model is close to that of an intaglio found in the Paoletti
collection and catalogued as M.Tulliio Cicero which was
thought to be in the Bessborough collection in the 18th
century.The identification as Cicero does not accord with the
Roman statesman’s likeness as acknowledged today.See L.
Pirzio Biroli Stefanelli, La collezione Paoletti, Stampi in vetro
per impronte di intagli e cammei, vol.ii, Rome, 2013, pp. 317,
tome IV, 7, no. 513.
£ 1,200-1,800
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