< Previous61AN INTAGLIO WITH HARE AND EAGLE W. 1.5 cm. Honey-yellow carnelian with fine brown inclusions. Roman, 2nd–3rd cent. A.D. CHF 850 Horizontal oval intaglio. The engraving depicts a hare and an eagle facing left. The eagle stands on the right on a groundline and grabs the hare’s tail with his beak, thereby hurling it through the air. Reverse smooth. Lower edge slightly worn. Formerly Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Munich, Auction 254, 13.2.2008, lot 920. For the style and motif, cf. a honey-yellow carnelian from the Mildenberg Coll. depicting a hare at- tacked by a dog: S. A. Kozloff et al., Tierbilder aus vier Jahrtausenden. Antiken der Sammlung Milden- berg (Mainz 1983) 190, no. 182bis with illus.62A CHILD’S RING WITH GRYLLOS INTAGLIO Dm. 1.3 cm. Gold, carnelian. Roman, 1st cent. A.D. CHF 2,600 The round hoop with semi-circular cross-section widens to an oval setting. This holds a dark red carnelian engraved with a gryllos, a bird with a man’s head on its chest. Hairline crack on the edge of the intaglio and on the setting of the ancient ring. The gryllos was a popular motif for intaglios in the Roman period. It performed the function of a talisman. Formerly Christie’s South Kensington, 25.4.2001, lot 307. For the style, cf. an intaglio with a double-faced gryllos: P. Zazoff, Die antiken Gemmen (Munich 1983) 337, no. 106,9, pl. 106.63A RING WITH INTAGLIO Dm. 1.3 cm. Gold, carnelian. Roman, 1st–3rd cent. A.D. CHF 3,200 Circular hoop which widens towards the octagonal setting that encloses a high, red, carne- lian intaglio with the representation of an eagle striding to left and turning its head to right. It holds a wreath in its beak. The small size of the hoop suggests that the ring was probably made for a child. Setting ancient. Intact. Formerly priv. coll., Rhineland, Germany, 1970s–1980s. An eagle holding a wreath in its beak on an intaglio that is probably slightly older than our specimen is related with regard to motif and posture: British Museum, London, inv. no. 1814,0704.2166 (online).64A CAMPANA RELIEF WITH EROTES AND GARLANDS L. max. 48.5 cm. H. 20.8 cm. D. 5.8 cm. Terracotta with large inclusions. Roman, late 1st cent. B.C.–1st half of 1st cent. A.D. CHF 26,000 Fragment of a relief frieze depicting three Erotes bearing garlands of fruit on a plastically offset ground line. An egg-and-dart moulding at the top of the picture field. Reverse smooth, two oval holes for attachment, profiled rim below. Mould-made. Some surface losses. Cam- pana reliefs are a special type of terracotta relief that was used to decorate buildings. Formerly Collection of the Swiss industrialist, philosopher and avid collector of antiquities Dr. Arnold Ruesch (1882–1929), Zurich. The object was displayed on a wall in the vestibule of his villa located on the Zürichberg and built in 1920–21. (Photograph published in: Das Haus Arnold Ruesch: Ar- chitekten Müller & Freytag, in: Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst, vol. 17 (1930), issue 12, p. 380). With Galerie Fischer, Luzern, Sammlung A. Ruesch, Zürich, Griechische, Etruskische und Römische Altertümer, 1–2.9.1936, lot 89. The egg-and-dart moulding on a relief with Dionysos and a maenad in the Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, inv. no. 14157, is stylistically related. Cf. A. Borbein, Campanareliefs. Typologische und stil- kritische Untersuchungen (Heidelberg 1968) 35, pl. 4.3. For the type, cf. a fragment in the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, inv. no. T.590.Next >