Seal shaped as a Buste of an African Man with carved intaglio carnelian base showing a male portrait en profil.

Seal shaped as a Buste of an African Man with carved intaglio carnelian base showing a male portrait en profil.

BK-17179

Cachet in de vorm van een borstbeeld van een Afrikaanse man. De buste is gesneden uit gelaagde onyx. Op de witte tulband een diamanten juweel. De intaglio aan de de onderzijde toont het portret van een man en profile, mogelijk een Romeinse keizer.

jeweler: anonymous, Germany

c. 1700 - c. 1725

verschillende kwartssoorten en diamant

height 4 cm

Public domain

…; collection Hermitage, Petersburg;{Note RMA.}…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939) Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 84, no. K.188.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

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