T44, JUPITER AS A BULL CROSSING THE SEA WITH EUROPA ON HIS BACK, AND NEAR HIM AN EAGLE

Record Number: 40000073
Sub-database: Poniatowski
Reference Number: T44
Material of Original Gem: Sardonyx
Description: JUPITER AS A BULL CROSSING THE SEA WITH EUROPA ON HIS BACK, AND NEAR HIM AN EAGLE
Inscription Greek: ΚΡΟΜΟΥ
Signature: Kromos
Literary Source Record: Anacreon
Moschus
Ovid, Metam.
Last Recorded Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 20.80.2/45799
Previous Collections:
- Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.63
- Christie's, London: 1839-792
- 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): 44

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