T886, THETIS PRESERVING THE BODY OF PATROCLUS FROM PUTREFACTION [POURING FROM A VASE AMBROSIA AND NECTAR OVER THE DEAD BODY, WHICH IS LYING ON A COUCH, AT THE FOOT OF WHICH STANDS ACHILLES IN CONVERSATION WITH HIS DIVINE MOTHER]
Description: THETIS PRESERVING THE BODY OF PATROCLUS FROM PUTREFACTION [POURING FROM A VASE AMBROSIA AND NECTAR OVER THE DEAD BODY, WHICH IS LYING ON A COUCH, AT THE FOOT OF WHICH STANDS ACHILLES IN CONVERSATION WITH HIS DIVINE MOTHER]
Inscription Greek: ΤΕΥΚΡΟΥ
Signature: Teuker
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Cabinet des médailles, Bibliothèque nationale de France: H 2873, inv 370
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): V.236
Christie's, London: 1839-810
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): 886
