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Lot 281 - Auction 107

A burnt agate cameo. Sea monster scene.
Estimate:
2.500,00/3.000,00 £
Starting price:
1.500,00 GBP
Price realized:
3.000,00 GBP
Bids:
7

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Lot status:
Auction closed

Description

A burnt agate cameo. Sea monster scene.

16th century.

20 x 26 x 5 mm.

This scene copies Das Meerwunder (The sea Monster) engraved c. 1498/1500 by Albrecht Durer, which shows a voluptuous naked middle-aged woman riding on the back of a male creature who is half man, half-fish. Fine depiction of the landscape, with the waves and the rocks of a cave. Tiny splinters/missing and the nose of the woman missing. Probably burnt. Rare. Parallels: Kagan, Western European Cameos in the Hermitage collection (1973) n. 57; Platz-Horster, Erhabene Bilder. Die Kameen in der Antikensammlung Berlin, Wiesbaden 2012, n. 376.

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