Description: VENUS URANIA (CELESTIAL), WHO PRESIDED OVER PURE AND EXALTED LOVE. SHE IS RESTING ONE HAND ON A CELESTIAL GLOBE, AND ONE FOOT ON A TORTOISE
Inscription Greek: ΓΝΑΙΟΣ
Signature: GNAIOS
Attributed To:
Literary Source Record: Moritz Sappho
Last Recorded Collection: Unknown
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.163
Christie's, London: 1839-1216
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): 107
