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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art | 72 | $****** - ****** | INTAGLIO OF NIKE SACRIFICING A BULL |
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carnelian, set in an enamelled gold ring
William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough (1704 – 1793);
by descent to his son Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (1758-1844), until sold Christie’s sale at Parkstead House, The Property of a Noble Earl Deceased, April 7th, 1801;
Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1706-1758) or George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (1739-1817), Blenheim Palace Oxfordshire;
thence by family descent to John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822-1883), Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire;
David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Lutterworth, until 1898;
by descent to Julia Harriet Mary Jary (née Bromilow);
Christie, Manson and Woods London, Catalogue of the Marlborough Gems: Being a Collection of Works in Cameo and Intaglio Formed by George, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, 27 June 1899, lot 279, 'set in a very pretty Louis XIV seal';
acquired by Wertheimer (23gns), probably the English art dealer Charles John Wertheimer (1842-1911)
L. Natter, Catalogue des pierre gravées, tant en relief qu'en creux de Mylord Comte de Bessborough, London, 1761, no. 106 'MITRAS, qui sacrifie un Taureau; Cornaline montée en Cachet';
M. H. Nevil Story-Maskelyne, The Marlborough Gems, Oxford, 1870, no. 279;
J. Kagan and O. Neverov, 'Lorenz Natter's Museum Britannicum: Gem Collecting in mid-Eighteenth-Century England,' in Apollo II, September 1984, fig. 8.13
J. Boardman, D. Scarisbrick, C. Wagner and E. Zwierlein-Diehl, The Marlborough Gems formerly at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, Oxford, 2009, p. 184, no. 414
ring size: O
