Description: PERSEUS CUTTING OFF THE HEAD OF MEDUSA
Inscription Greek: ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔΟΥ
Signature: Dioskourides
Literary Source Record: Moritz
Current Collection: Unknown
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres graves antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833)
Christie's, London
Calandrelli drawing, Antikensammlung Berlin
Prendeville, J.: Explanatory catalogue of the proof-impressions of the antique gems possessed by the late Prince Poniatowski and now in the possession of John Tyrrell, Esq. (1841)
Monson, (Lord)
Christie's, London
Platz-Horster,G.: L'antica maniera. Zeichnungen und Gemmen des Giovanni Calandrelli in der Antikensammlung Berlin (2005)
Material: Sardonyx
Comments: The original in the sale is Calandrelli's version (see the drawing in Berlin). Tyrrell's impression in the Beazley Archive shows that he must have had another, more rectangular in shape. These should possibly be two individual records. A drawing by Bartolomeo Pinelli (ROME 1781 - 1835) seems to have been inspired by Calandrelli's gem.
Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/02308F83-AD06-4EF2-82F8-D0D9E82AD507
