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Roman Satyr Traveller Gemstone in Gold Ring Roman Satyr Traveller Gemstone in Gold Ring Roman Satyr Traveller Gemstone in Gold Ring
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LOT 0081

Roman Satyr Traveller Gemstone in Gold Ring

1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.

1 in. (8.22 grams, 27.20 mm overall, 22.95 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)).

A garnet cabochon with intaglio satyr traveller advancing with staff and pouch over his shoulder, set into a later gold finger ring.

Provenance

Acquired 1960s-1990s.
Late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11619-199018.

Literature

Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 321, for type; Richter, G.M.A., Engraved Gems of the Romans, London, 1971, no.184.

Footnotes

The subject was popular on Roman gems: Silenus and the satyrs, grotesque hedonists, unrestrained in their desire for sex and wine, and yet immortal companions of Dionysus, were considered ‘cruder than men and yet somehow wiser, combining mischief with wisdom, lewdness with skill in music, animalism with divinity'. The counterpoint of the divine and the atavistic appealed to the Roman sense of moral superiority.

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LOT 0081

Roman Satyr Traveller Gemstone in Gold Ring

Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,940

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