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GROUP of CAMEOS, INTAGLIOS AND MEDALLIONS
Estimate:
$500 - $1,000
Sold
$850
Live Auction
Discovery | The Heckman Collection
Category
Description
Including: CAST METAL MEDALLIONS & MARBLE CARVING, in two frames, including two commemorative metals, including a Washington and Liberty medal circa 1932, and a Benignitatis Humanae Finlandia Memor medal, and a marble fragment with a carved portrait bust of Cesar, inscribed on verso, “From Howard Smith / Thanksgiving / 1809" (?) (h. 3-1/2 in.); plus two trout-fishing medals and a sterling silver figure of a trout (w. 3-1/2 in.); overall: 7-1/4 x 7 in. (each frame); (3pc) ANTIQUE CAMEOS, in two frames, including a shell cameo portrait pin, 18th or 19th century, showing a portrait of a gentleman wearing a barrister's wig, facing right, 1 in.; a Victorian carved cameo glass pin depicting a portrait bust of a classical female looking right, 1-1/2 in.; and a Neoclassical hardstone portrait cameo of a classical female facing left, likely late 18th / early 19th century, 3/4 in. - 5-1/4 x 5-1/8 in. (each frame); and a group of ANTIQUE CAMEOS & INTAGLIOS, including a large carnelian intaglio with a bust of Zeus facing left, possibly Roman (2nd century A.D.), 7/8 in., with a casting in green composition on stand;; a Neoclassical glass cameo of Diana, 19th or 20th century; a carnelian intaglio of a bearded warrior, possibly Roman, depicting a helmeted and bearded Roman soldier looking left; a green glass intaglio, possibly Renaissance period, depicting a scene of judgement before a Roman commander; two agate portrait intaglios, likely 19th century in the Roman style, each depicting a male figure looking right; and an agate portrait cameo, possibly Roman, depicting a portrait bust of a man facing left, overall: 5-1/4 x 5-1/8 in. (frame)
Condition
Please see pictures
Provenance
The Collection of Lynn and Bruce Heckman, noted contributors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York