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Currently, the working pages on this site can be found on the “EXPLORE” AND “Catalogues” pages.

  • EXPLORE – Search by text and image match the “Catalgoue of Impressions of One Hundred Gems” by Marchant, 1792
    • Master Index – A comparative spreadsheet comparing the entries about Marchant’s 100 gems as found in his 1792 Catalogue, in the Raspe-Tassie Catalogue of 1791, and The Gertrude Seidmann article in the Walpole Journal, 1987.
  • Catalogues – PDF copies of two Catalogues

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JUPITER SERAPIS

JUPITER SERAPIS

1792 Catalogue Description

From a colossal bust in a more sublime style of sculpture than any of that character in Rome in the Museum Pio-Clementinum. This bust was found at Colombaro in the Via Appia about eight miles from Rome where a villa of Gallienus is supposed to have been situated.

Material

Sardonyx
Gem Type

Original Owner

ROWLAND BURDON, Esq.

To view a copy of the entry for this imprssion in the original catalogue CLICK HERE.