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
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.
Last Recorded Collection: British Museum, London: BM MLA 1945, 7-3, 2. Given by Miss F. J. Lefroy
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.160
Christie's, London: 1839-2310
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): 105
Scarisbrick, (Charles), Esq.
Christie's, London: May 16, 1861, lot 183
Rudoe, J. in M. Jones (ed.): Fake? (1990): 154d
Rudoe, J. 'The faking of gems in the eighteenth century' in: Why Fakes Matter (1992): p. 30, no.10
