Victory of the Sun

Roman Intaglio of a Quadriga of the 1st/2nd Century in a Modern Gold Ring

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Roman Intaglio of a Quadriga of the 1st/2nd Century in a Modern Gold Ring

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This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

A mighty team of four pulls a chariot. The horses mount, stamping hooves, clouds of dust, flashing lights of golden bridles, neighing and snorting allow us to watch the spectacle in awe. A proud charioteer stands upright behind the powerful animals. His victory, his triumph, is to be celebrated here. This scene, which appeals to all the senses, has been engraved on this carnelian, a seal stone, for around 2000 years. We see the dynamic scene in an artistic style between fine detail and deliberate abstraction. A setting of high-carat gold turns the ancient stone into a ring today. The quadriga as a badge of honor has been depicted again and again in European antiquity since the earliest times. Erika Zierlein-Diehl: Antike Gemmen und ihr Nachleben, Berlin 2007, page plate 18, fig. 53, depicts a cameo from as early as the 7th century BC (now in the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities). On coins we find the foursome to honor the respective emperor, for example on a denarius of Augustus in an unusual frontal view (RIC 267). Finally, frescoes have been preserved in Pompeii that show, among other things, a quadriga of Venus. This stone was created in the first centuries after the turn of the millennium and was probably originally set in a ring. The Roman carnelian came to us as part of a bracelet from around 1800 from a collection in Cologne. The simple ring band made of high-carat gold with the two decorative arches to the right and left of the stone setting was created in our workshop based on models from Roman times.

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One of the most beautiful and exciting fields in the field of jewellery is collecting antique intaglios and cameos. These engraved or raised images carved in hard stone offer such a wealth of motifs that a whole world of objects opens up for every interest. There are cameos with portraits of famous people and heroes, depictions of deities and mythical events, memories of personal experiences and narrative scenes from everyday life. As cameos were widely used as jewellery in antiquity and every citizen probably wore such stones (and often gave them as gifts), a relatively large number of original pieces have also survived outside museums. We are always particularly pleased to be able to offer such cameos.

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Victory of the Sun

€ 2,690.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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