Description: PSYCHE WITH THE CASKET OF PERFUME RECEIVED FROM PROSERPINE [TURNING AWAY HER FACE FROM THE VAPOUR]
Inscription Greek: ΓΝΑΙΟΣ
Signature: GNAIOS
Literary Source Record: Apuleius
Last Recorded Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 81.6.224
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.193
Christie's, London: 1839-787
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): 128
Scarisbrick, (Charles), Esq.
Christie's, London: May 16, 1861, lot 170
King, C.W.: The Handbook of Engraved Gems (1866): 265.2; II, woodcuts, pl.25 A, 3 no.181
Richter, G.M.A.: Catalogue of Engraved Gems of the Classical Style (1920): 198, no.420
Gasparri, C.: 'Gemme antiche in eta neoclassica' in Prospettiva 8 (1977): p.31
