Intaglios at Christies July 5 Auction — RESULTS

RESULTS FROM THE JULY 5 AUCTION CAN BE FOUND AT:  http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=6084707&lid=1 for Lot 85; the rest of the cameo and intaglio Lots follow that page. 

Christie’s at King Street in London has 26 lots of ancient cameos and intaglios up for sale at its July 5, 2017 Antiquities Auction.  They are Lot Nos. 85 to 110.
The auction information and catalog can be viewed at http://www.christies.com/salelanding/index.aspx?intsaleid=26821&saletitle=  

From the catalog:  “Sangiorgi Collection.  Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965) was a principle of the most renowned art-dealing family in Rome… As a private collector, Sangiorgi assembled an important ancient glass collection, which he published in 1914 (Collezione de Vetri Antichi dalle Origini al V Sec. D.C., ordinati e descriti da Giorgio Sangiorgi con prefazione di W. Froehner). Masterpieces from it were sold in the 1960s and are now the pride of numerous institutions such as the Toledo Museum of Art and the Corning Museum of Glass.”

The lot descriptions contain a wealth of information about the glyptic art of the ancient times as well as some interesting provenance of the individual pieces. 

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