In the Forest

Modern Gold Ring With an Antique Intaglio, Late Imperial Period / c. 1990

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Modern Gold Ring With an Antique Intaglio, Late Imperial Period / c. 1990

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Not only gods and emperors were depicted in ancient intaglios. Numerous engraved gemstones have preserved the interests of people of that time in scenes from everyday life to this day. We encounter farmers and hunters, labour in the forest as well as in the fields and on the coast, captured in the small medium of hard stone and passed down through the centuries. The intaglio presented here shows a man wearing a helmet in a landscape. He appears to be leaning against a tree, with a sword or a quiver of arrows before him. He is most likely a hunter waiting for his luck in the chase. Many such depictions are known, particularly from the late imperial period. Erika Zwierlein-Diehl: Antike Gemmen und ihr Nachleben, Berlin/New York 2007, pp. 197 ff., has described several similar scenes by the so-called “Hunting Dog Master” of the 2nd century AD (see illustration). These help to date the present stone to that period. The oval, brownish-orange agate is set in a simple, modern gold ring and can thus accompany and protect either a woman or a man. The approximately 1,800-year-old stone has a crack in the centre, yet it is securely held by an inset gold plate on the reverse and further protected from damage by the broad collet setting. We discovered it in the Rhineland.

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To possess antique cameos was the claim of almost all great collections for centuries: We find spectacular pieces as well in the Green Vault in Dresden, in the treasury of Rudolf II, up to the great private collections like that of Baron Stosch in later times. The 18th and 19th centuries produced numerous large imprint collections of antique seal stones and cameos, which represent the antique imagery of glyptic almost in its entirety. Thus, they were not least an expression of a humanistic education. Of particular importance for the transmission of stone and shell carvings north of the Alps have always been travelers to Italy, who brought home imprints and carved stones as well as engraved shells from their educational journeys to enjoy the stories that the shells could tell. The art of cameo cutter has survived to this day in Italy, especially in the Bay of Naples, where it has been passed down from generation to generation. Today the Scuola dei Cammei in Torre del Greco is the only professional training center for cameo cutters in the world, but unfortunately the mythological theme world as a subject has been almost completely lost.

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In the Forest

€ 1,490.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Unit price €1,490.00 / piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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