£250 - £350
AFTER THE ORIGINAL BY HYLLUS, SON OF DIOSCURIDES, ‘DIONYSIAN BULL’, A 19TH CENTURY CARVED GLASS INTAGLIO YELLOW METAL RING (YELLOW METAL TESTED AS 14CT GOLD)
Slight domed oval glass intaglio insert (approx. 29mm x 21.5mm), depicting a Dionysian bull, his body girded with a garland of ivy, walking with head bowed. thyrsus formed ground line, set in a stepped back mount, open back with large stylised open work shoulders.
(front 31mm x 23mm, UK ring size Z, gross weight 12.7g)
N.B. National Library of France, In.58.1637, Louis XIV’s medal cabinet at Versailles.
(Wedgwood) Catalogue of cameos, intaglios, medals, bas-reliefs, busts and small statues, Josiah Wedgewood, 1787, example 303, ‘Bull’
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