37, Double portrait (profile right): Alfonso II d’Este andLucretia de’ Medici (Scarisbrick). Busts of Omphale, wearing the lionskin and exposing one breast, and Herakles. Possibly Ptolemaic portraits.
Description: Double portrait (profile right): Alfonso II d’Este andLucretia de’ Medici (Scarisbrick). Busts of Omphale, wearing the lionskin and exposing one breast, and Herakles. Possibly Ptolemaic portraits.
Last Recorded Collection: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore: 42.1057
Previous Collections:
Story-Maskelyne, M.H.: The Marlborough Gems (1870): no. 319
Boardman, J., Scarisbrick, D., Wagner C., Zwierlein-Diehl, E: The Marlborough Gems (2009): no. 37
Shape: Cameo
Size: 25x21
Comments: Set in a plain gold ring.
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