T105, VULCAN, HAVING SURPRISED VENUS AND MARS, ENCLOSES THEM IN HIS BRAZEN NET, WHICH UNITED EXTREME LIGHTNESS WITH SUCH SOLIDITY, THAT EVEN THE GOD OF WAR COULD NOT BREAK IT
- Reference Number: T105
- Description: VULCAN, HAVING SURPRISED VENUS AND MARS, ENCLOSES THEM IN HIS BRAZEN NET, WHICH UNITED EXTREME LIGHTNESS WITH SUCH SOLIDITY, THAT EVEN THE GOD OF WAR COULD NOT BREAK IT
- Inscription Greek: ΠΥΡΓΟΤΕΛΕΣ
- Signature: Pyrgoteles
- Literary Source Record: Homer, Odyss.
- Current Collection: British Museum, London
- Previous Collections:
- Catalogue des pierres graves antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833)
- Christie's, London
- 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)
- Scarisbrick, (Charles), Esq.
- Christie's, London
- Rudoe, J. in M. Jones (ed.): Fake? (1990)
- Rudoe, J. 'The faking of gems in the eighteenth century' in: Why Fakes Matter (1992)
- Material: Sardonyx
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