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Lot 339 - Auction 107

An important carnelian intaglio set in a silver ring. Portrait of Dr. R. Carmichael by Forster.
Estimate:
3.000,00/5.000,00 £
Starting price:
2.000,00 GBP
Price realized:
2.000,00 GBP
Bids:
1

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Lot status:
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Description

An important carnelian intaglio set in a silver ring. Portrait of Dr. R. Carmichael by Forster.

19th century.

Stone 21 x 27 mm; ring size 17 x 21 mm; 10,59 gr.


Important silver ring with a large square bezel, set with a carnelian intaglio bust of Dr. Carmichael facing right, signed W C FORSTER on a cartouche. Dr. Richard Carmichael (1779-1849) was a celebrated Irish surgeon and Professor of Anatomy. He had performed the first parotidectomy in Ireland in 1817 (without Anesthesia) and founded the Irish Medical Ass. in 1840. William Charles Foster (1816 - c. 1911) was the son of a gem engraver and lithographer called Thomas Forster (c. 1782-1869).


Provenance: from the collection of Raphael Esmerian (1903-1976).

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