RARE PTOLEMAIC CARNELIAN INTAGLIO OF PTOLEMAIC RULERS IN HIGH KARAT GOLD RING

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Ca. 332 - 30 BC. A carnelian intaglio engraved with a double portrait of Ptolemaic rulers, showing two superimposed mature male profile busts to the right, the nearer with short curling hair bound with a fillet and the rear with the hair drawn back, mounted in a possibly later gold ring with a broad oval bezel plate, a plain collet, tapering shoulders, and a flat-section hoop. For similar see: J. Spier, Precious Gems and Poetry in the Hellenistic Royal Courts, fig. 7. Size: D:19.15mm / US: 9 1/4 / UK: S; Weight: 20g Provenance: Private London collection; previously with F.A., Brussels; Belgian collection formed between the early 1970s to the early 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.

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