A Renaissance emerald intaglio depicting Emperor Commodus as Hercules

£800 - £1,200 £1,100

A Renaissance emerald intaglio depicting Emperor Commodus as Hercules, c.1600, Commodus in profile and wearing the Nemean lion skin, intaglio 1.4cm high, in a later silver ring mount, size N 1/2

Provenance: from the estate of a descendant of a Major Walter Maxwell Henderson-Scott formerly of Burley Beacon, Burley, Hampshire.