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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1271051, member: 5833"]Only one has lettering. And that's the whole point. Admittedly based on photos alone, but Christopher Lightfoot, formerly a curator in the Met's Greek & Roman department & their expert on glass, gave me his opinion that the glass intaglio is Roman, in part because in the Georgian era, when it was mounted in a miniature, fob sized seal, there were still many genuine paste gems on the market, no need to fake them. If the paste copy is Roman & taken from the amethyst, yet has no trace of the name engraved on it, what do we make of this Pamphilos? The gem was a gift to Louis XIV. Signed gems from antiquity were highly coveted. Hmm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1271051, member: 5833"]Only one has lettering. And that's the whole point. Admittedly based on photos alone, but Christopher Lightfoot, formerly a curator in the Met's Greek & Roman department & their expert on glass, gave me his opinion that the glass intaglio is Roman, in part because in the Georgian era, when it was mounted in a miniature, fob sized seal, there were still many genuine paste gems on the market, no need to fake them. If the paste copy is Roman & taken from the amethyst, yet has no trace of the name engraved on it, what do we make of this Pamphilos? The gem was a gift to Louis XIV. Signed gems from antiquity were highly coveted. Hmm.[/QUOTE]
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