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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1175026, member: 5833"]It's definitely true that the more of them you see, the more you appreciate them as a separate species, although quite wonderful in their own way. It was definitely the auction that finally blew the lid off.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have written about this elsewhere on the site, but I have my own pursuit of this sort going on. This amethyst of Achilles playing the kithara, with the name Pamphilos on it, vertically, in Greek, is a prized possession formerly of Louis XIV, now in the BnF, CdM:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/ark:/12148/c33gbfkm9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/ark:/12148/c33gbfkm9" rel="nofollow">http://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/ark:/12148/c33gbfkm9</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In a box in a bag in my living room is a little fob seal with a glass paste intaglio that is the same size as the amethyst. I have had one expert opinion, based on photos, that the paste is Roman glass, as I thought, although not a final verdict on whether or not it is an impression of the amethyst, as I also think, or just from a very accurate copy. It gets interesting if it is indeed a record of the gem from a time before it was given to Louis:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]213082[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Impressions of the amethyst & some other gems that copy it are shown in the Tassie collection:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/gems/tassie/default.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/gems/tassie/default.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/gems/tassie/default.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can go to them by entering 9212-9217 in the box for searching by number. Some of the others also have the name Pamphilos cut into them, although they are clearly not exact copies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1175026, member: 5833"]It's definitely true that the more of them you see, the more you appreciate them as a separate species, although quite wonderful in their own way. It was definitely the auction that finally blew the lid off. I have written about this elsewhere on the site, but I have my own pursuit of this sort going on. This amethyst of Achilles playing the kithara, with the name Pamphilos on it, vertically, in Greek, is a prized possession formerly of Louis XIV, now in the BnF, CdM: [URL]http://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/ark:/12148/c33gbfkm9[/URL] In a box in a bag in my living room is a little fob seal with a glass paste intaglio that is the same size as the amethyst. I have had one expert opinion, based on photos, that the paste is Roman glass, as I thought, although not a final verdict on whether or not it is an impression of the amethyst, as I also think, or just from a very accurate copy. It gets interesting if it is indeed a record of the gem from a time before it was given to Louis: [ATTACH=full]213082[/ATTACH] Impressions of the amethyst & some other gems that copy it are shown in the Tassie collection: [URL]http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/gems/tassie/default.htm[/URL] You can go to them by entering 9212-9217 in the box for searching by number. Some of the others also have the name Pamphilos cut into them, although they are clearly not exact copies.[/QUOTE]
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