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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1389683, member: 5833"]<a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/eyes-have-it-are-these-intaglios-the-same.44251/#post-1271051" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/eyes-have-it-are-these-intaglios-the-same.44251/#post-1271051">I have already been on & on</a> about my most exciting acquisition of the year & roped some of you into my mania.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's a long way from eye candy, small, dull brown, difficult to make out without good light & strong magnification. Sold as a Georgian glass paste intaglio about 200 years old, I thought I saw something more in it. Its very drabness is one reason experts think it is likely to be about 2,000 years old, Hellenistic Roman.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]222036[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As if that were not enough fun, it also seems to be a copy of a <a href="http://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/ark:/12148/c33gbfkm9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/ark:/12148/c33gbfkm9" rel="nofollow">famous amethyst intaglio</a>, once the property of Louis XIV, & believed to have been signed by the engraver, Pamphilos. Only problem, the paste copy has no sign of a name & fraud was rampant when the craze for collecting engraved gems was in full swing.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]222035[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Hoping after the holidays to get additional input from museum/academic sources.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1389683, member: 5833"][URL='https://www.antiquers.com/threads/eyes-have-it-are-these-intaglios-the-same.44251/#post-1271051']I have already been on & on[/URL] about my most exciting acquisition of the year & roped some of you into my mania. It's a long way from eye candy, small, dull brown, difficult to make out without good light & strong magnification. Sold as a Georgian glass paste intaglio about 200 years old, I thought I saw something more in it. Its very drabness is one reason experts think it is likely to be about 2,000 years old, Hellenistic Roman. [ATTACH=full]222036[/ATTACH] As if that were not enough fun, it also seems to be a copy of a [URL='http://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/ark:/12148/c33gbfkm9']famous amethyst intaglio[/URL], once the property of Louis XIV, & believed to have been signed by the engraver, Pamphilos. Only problem, the paste copy has no sign of a name & fraud was rampant when the craze for collecting engraved gems was in full swing. [ATTACH=full]222035[/ATTACH] Hoping after the holidays to get additional input from museum/academic sources.[/QUOTE]
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