Last Recorded Collection: Christie's, London: Geneva, November 11, 2014, lot 194
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): IX.1.27
Christie's, London: 1839-1451
Scarisbrick, (Charles), Esq.
Christie's, London: May 16, 1861, lot 251
The Wellington Gems (1977) [London, Market, S.J. Phillips]: 408.4
Pirzio Biroli Stefanelli, L.: La collezione Paoletti. Stampi in vetro per impronte di intagli e cammei vol.I (2007): III.57
Comments: Now set in a gold bangle by Bulgari. Christie's 2014 description of the lot: Centering upon an oval-shaped cornelian intaglio, depicting Épiménide in profile, with baguette-cut diamond bombé shoulders, to the fluted gold hinged cuff, inscribed to the reverse of the intaglio 'EPIMENIDE 1 QUARTO XIX SEC', inner circumference 15.7 cm Signed Bulgari
