LOTTO 281:
A burnt agate cameo. Sea monster scene.
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A burnt agate cameo. Sea monster scene.
16th century.
20 x 26 x 5 mm.
This scene copies Das Meerwunder (The sea Monster) engraved c. 1498/1500 by Albrecht Durer, which shows a voluptuous naked middle-aged woman riding on the back of a male creature who is half man, half-fish. Fine depiction of the landscape, with the waves and the rocks of a cave. Tiny splinters/missing and the nose of the woman missing. Probably burnt. Rare. Parallels: Kagan, Western European Cameos in the Hermitage collection (1973) n. 57; Platz-Horster, Erhabene Bilder. Die Kameen in der Antikensammlung Berlin, Wiesbaden 2012, n. 376.
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