Museum necklace with Teberius cameo in antique style

Description:

Around 1895, in the style of Louis Wiese, the cameo probably 18th or 19th century Italy.
2,9 x 4,3 cm | L. 49 cm
Setting of the cameo 999/000 yellow gold (RFA tested), Paris import stamp owl from 1893), necklace chain 750/000 yellow gold (tested). Cameo of whiteßgrey speckled chalcedony with depiction of a youthful emperor of the Julio-Claudian period, probably Tiberius, oval setting with granulation. The handmade, antique-style necklace with braided links, hook clasp with ornamentally pierced medallion disc. Total weight 41.3 g.
Compare here in Berges, classicist gems and cameos from the Sommerville Collection, illus. 212;224; 232 to the antique-style cameos of the 18th/19th century.
From an important München collection, acquired in the 1920s according to family tradition.
Literature:
Dietrich Berges: Klassizistische Gemmen und Kameen der Sammlung Summerville, Rahden 2011. See figs. 212, 224 and 232.
Catalogue of the Bavarian National Museum: Pariser Schmuck, München 1989. Compare here a äsimilar necklace with cameo in antique style, made by Louis Wiese after 1890 on p. 98 and 99. For the hallmark see p. 320
We would like to thank Mr Kai Stefan Scheuermann for his kind support.