Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String

Buff-coloured paper reproduction poster with grey, sepia and black image of a woman in hat and fur coat with a child at her side; large lettering to lower centre 'La Revue Blanche'; title in handwritten script 'La Revue parait chaque mois en livraisons de 100 pages le No 1ere nureaux 3 rue Laffitte en vente partout'; 'bottom right blind stamp 'Imp. Edw. Ancourt, Paris'; bottom left 'Les Maîtres de l'Affiche Pl.38 / Imprimerie Chaix / (Encres Lorilleux & Cie.)' 49 grams, 39.6 x 29 cm



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Harwich, UK, collector.

The head, carved from pale green chalcedony, polished to a smooth lustre and with a drilled aperture at the crown, the hair in tight curls around the nape and crown; the silver-gilt torso dressed in a draped toga carefully chased with deep folds and traces of gilding across the high points; mounted on a later patinated bronze column stand in the neoclassical manner. 208 grams total, 10.9 cm high including stand



Acquired on the European art market.

This small-scale portrait evokes the Roman tradition of imperial portraiture and the early modern fascination with the ancient world. From the seventeenth century onwards, artists and collectors revived classical subjects through hardstone and gilt-metal compositions, often intended for display in Kunstkammer or Grand Tour contexts. The combination of a reused ancient or earlier element with a later mount was a practice typical of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, reflecting the period’s reverence for antiquity and its imaginative recontextualisation of ancient forms.

Plaque fragment with low-relief scene, kneeling Saint Jerome in a cave with one hand stretched out. 37.3 grams, 77.48 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.