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Lot 19 Dα

Two cameo pins

Auction 1151 - overview Cologne
28.05.2020, 17:00 - Jewellery & Boxes
Estimate: 350 € - 400 €
Result: 688 € (incl. premium)

Two cameo pins

1) Portrait of a man in profile, carved bone on blue glass, steel pin, 3.1 x 1.8 cm, probably England, late 18th C. 2) Bombé form shell cameo finely carved with the head of Medusa after a motif by Saulini, 2.9 x 2.2 cm, Italy, 2nd half 19th C. Minor tin solder repairs. Total weight 9.70 g.

Literature

Cf. for more on the Saulini workshop: Gere/Rudoe, Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria no. 476. Here a shell cameo with an identical motif by Saulini.