Pollux du Castor

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Cat finger ring made of faience, dating to the New Kingdom of Egypt, 18th Dynasty, c. 1390 BC.

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~Parure: tiara, necklace, and brooch. Artist: Cameos carved by Luigi Saulini (Italian, 1819–1883) Designer: Designer of Diadem (a) John Gibson (British, Gwynedd, Wales 1790–1866 Rome) Date: mid-19th century Culture: Italian, Rome Medium: Onyx and gold, tortoiseshell

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Silver gilt ring with garnet, European, 1400-1500

From the Victoria and Albert Museum

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Antique Victorian 18k Gold Bloodstone Intaglio Ring

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Gold necklace with bearded head pendant, Etruscan, 525-500 BC

from The J. Paul Getty Museum

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~ Weaving Tool.

Place of origin: Peru

Date: A.D. 200-1520

Medium: Bone

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~ Weaving Tool.

Place of origin: Peru

Date: A.D. 200-1520

Medium: Bone

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Gold ring with carnelian intaglio depicting Jonah and the whale, Roman, 4th century AD

from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Diadem of Queen Amaga, Sarmatian, 2nd century BC

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Necklace with Ancient Egyptian scarab pendants, dating to the Amarna period, or 1360 BCE. 

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~ Ptolemaic Cameo.

Culture: Greek

Period: Hellenistic

Date: 278-269 B.C.

Medium: Ten-layered Arabic Onyx, dark brown and bluish white. Setting: gold ring, enamel, 4th quarter of the 16th century.

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Parure of Empress Marie-Louise of Austria

c.1810

Nitot et Fils

By his second marriage in 1810, Napoleon I managed to ally himself with the oldest of the reigning houses, that of Austria. Nothing is too good then to dazzle the young Archduchess Marie-Louise. Among the jewels offered is the set of François-Regnault Nitot (1779-1853) adorned with glass micro-mosaics. This is one of the rare testimonies from the Crown Treasury that have not been altered in any way.

The wedding was luxurious. The future empress received fine linen, rare lace, multiple hats, pilgrims, scarves, shoes, gold leaf fans, embroidered shawls, ball gowns, day dresses, hunting outfits, frock coats, a gold kit. and vermeil by the silversmith Martin-Guillaume Biennais and seventy-one parures all provided by the jeweler François-Regnault Nitot (1779-1853). Among these parures are one in diamonds, one in pearls and one made of emeralds and diamonds. The more modest set today in the Louvre was also part of this set.

This set consists of a necklace, a comb, two bracelets and two earrings. All these elements are adorned with rectangular and oval glass paste micro-mosaics. These ten micro-mosaics with blue glass paste framing are probably the work of Roman mosaicists specializing in this manufacture since the 18th century. Their favorite themes are generally animals, flowers, reproductions of ancient monuments or landscapes with ancient ruins. On this ornament, there are ruins among which the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, the Forum and Tivoli. We can sometimes identify the prints that served as a model like that of Domenico Pronti. The choice of this technique and these patterns reveals the attraction exerted by Antiquity under the 1st Empire.

These micro-mosaics were mounted on delicately chiseled golden vine leaves and bunches of grapes. This type of naturalistic frame is rare under the 1st Empire and foreshadows a more widespread taste in the Romantic period. The micro-mosaic ornaments were very popular, as the inventory after the death of Joséphine de Beauharnais reveals to us, which mentions a mosaic ornament surrounded by fine stones. Princess Augusta of Bavaria, wife of Eugène de Beauharnais, is portrayed with a belt decorated with micro-mosaics. Marie-Louise’s Parure was listed in the Inventory of Crown Diamonds in 1811 and with the fall of the Empire it returned to the royal collections under Louis XVIII.

The Louvre

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Gold star pendant necklace, Uruk, 3rd-2nd millennium BC

from Timeline Auctions

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Ethiopian monuments 1,000 years older than previously thought

Rising as high as 20 feet, ancient stone monoliths in southern Ethiopia are 1,000 years older than scientists previously thought, according to a new study in the Journal of African Archaeology.

A Washington State University research team used advanced radiocarbon dating to determine the often phallic-shaped monoliths, or stelae, at the Sakaro Sodo archeological site in Ethiopia’s Gedeo zone were likely created sometime during the first century A.D.

The only other attempt to determine the age of the more than 10,000 stele monoliths located at various sites in the Gedeo zone was conducted by French scientists in the 1990s. It provided a far more modest construction date of around 1100 A.D. for the monuments of Tuto Fela in the northern part of Gedeo. Read more.

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Roman silver ring with gold bezel with phallus, 1st-2nd century AD

from Pax Romana Auctions