Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

Three unmounted glass cameo sulphides, of classical scenes, an unmounted oval ‘Tassie’ of a classical athlete, a mounted oval glass cameo of a classical muse; a mounted oval purple glass cameo of the head of Laocoön (after the antique); a 19th century glass and white metal mounted fouled anchor brooch (lacking pin), sulphides lengths 20.5mm, 22mm, 18mm, ‘Tassie’ length 30mm, glass cameo 34mm, purple cameo 35mm.

See: Paul Jokelson: Sulphides; The Art of Cameo Incrustation, New York 1968

The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, the Laocoön Group, was excavated in Rome in 1506, and is on display in the Vatican Museum.