Description: BACCHUS PRESENTING TO THETIS THE URN CONTAINING THE ASHES OF ACHILLES AND PATROCLUS
Inscription Greek: ΓΝΑΙΟΣ
Signature: GNAIOS
Literary Source Record: Homer, Iliad
Last Recorded Collection: Bonhams, London: 19th of September 2012, lot 23
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): II.47
Christie's, London: 1839-2313
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): 274
Private Collection
Comments: GLASS IMPRESSION IN A PRIVATE COLLECTION, CURATED BY ALENKA SIMONčIč, NATIONAL GALLERY OF SLOVENIA.