Description: AEGEUS PREVENTING THESEUS [WHOM HE RECOGNIZED BY THE SWORD LYING ON THE TABLE] FROM QUAFFING THE POISONED CUP [OF MEDEA]
Inscription Greek: ΓΝΑΙΟΣ
Signature: Gnaios
Last Recorded Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: "Found unnumbered in the collection"; ANOL.45 on M+
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): IV.190
Christie's, London: 1839-1374
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): 603
Monson, (Lord)
Christie's, London: June 9, 1851, lot 167
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