T935, THE COMBAT OF HECTOR AND ACHILLES [MINERVA PRESENTING TO ACHILLES THE SPEAR WHICH HE HAD LAUNCHED AGAINST HECTOR, WHO IS RAISING HIS SHIELD TO DEFEND HIMSELF]
Description: THE COMBAT OF HECTOR AND ACHILLES [MINERVA PRESENTING TO ACHILLES THE SPEAR WHICH HE HAD LAUNCHED AGAINST HECTOR, WHO IS RAISING HIS SHIELD TO DEFEND HIMSELF]
Inscription Greek: ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΙΔΟΥ
Signature: Apollonides
Last Recorded Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: RES.29.39
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): V.338
Christie's, London: 1839-982
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): 935
Holmes, (from estate of Fanny B. Holmes; Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Comments: Glass impression in a private collection, curated by Alenka Simončič, National Gallery of Slovenia.
