Description: THE INFANT VULCAN, HAVING FALLEN FROM HEAVEN ON THE ISLAND OF LEMNOS, IS SAVED BY THETIS AND THE NYMPH EURONYME
Inscription Greek: ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΙΔΟΥ
Signature: APOLLONIDES
Attributed To:
Literary Source Record: Homer
Last Recorded Collection: Private Collection
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): I.151
Christie's, London: 1839-1261
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): 98
Platz-Horster,G.: L'antica maniera. Zeichnungen und Gemmen des Giovanni Calandrelli in der Antikensammlung Berlin (2005)
Bonhams, London: 19th of September 2012, lot 23
Comments: PIERRES GRAVEES: GIVES ORIENTAL CORNELIAN AS MATERIAL, CHRISTIE'S 1839: NO MATERIAL OR INSCRIPTION, SCARISBRICK: CORNELIAN, NO INSCRIPTION; SEE ALSO THE EARLY CALANDRELLI DESIGN - NOT IMPLEMENTED