Small Wonders: Early Gems and Jewels
Small Wonders: Early Gems and Jewels
Italian, probably Milan, circa 1600 | Cameo with the Head of a Lion
Lot Closed
December 16, 01:18 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Italian, probably Milan, circa 1600
Cameo with the Head of a Lion
tiger’s eye (in the 18th and 19th centuries this would have been termed cat’s eye), within a modern pendant mount
30.9mm., 1.21in.
Please note that the material of this lot is tiger’s eye (in the 18th and 19th centuries this would have been termed cat’s eye)
Baron Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757);
Johann Lorenz Natter (1705-1763);
‘A French gentleman’;
from whom acquired by 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 717, £130 to C. Davis;
Christie’s London, 15 July 1969, lot 56, £189;
French private collection until 2019
Johann Lorenz Natter (1705-1763);
‘A French gentleman’;
from whom acquired by 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 717, £130 to C. Davis;
Christie’s London, 15 July 1969, lot 56, £189;
French private collection until 2019
Album of photographs of the Marlborough gems, 1875, p. 11, pl. 6, no. 5;
M. H. Story-Maskelyne, The Marlborough Gems, introduction p. xvii, and p. 116, no. 717;
J. Boardman, D. Scarisbrick, C. Wagner and E. Zwierlein-Diehl, The Marlborough Gems formerly at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, Oxford, 2009, p. 235, no. 531;
J. Boardman et al., Natter’s Museum Britannicum, 2017, p. 216, no. 516, pl. L7
M. H. Story-Maskelyne, The Marlborough Gems, introduction p. xvii, and p. 116, no. 717;
J. Boardman, D. Scarisbrick, C. Wagner and E. Zwierlein-Diehl, The Marlborough Gems formerly at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, Oxford, 2009, p. 235, no. 531;
J. Boardman et al., Natter’s Museum Britannicum, 2017, p. 216, no. 516, pl. L7