Jewellery, Watches, Silver & Objects of Vertu

A late 18th/early 19th century glass intaglio ring, the translucent pale blue oval glass intaglio after the original ancient depiction of the young Augustus, collet set to plain tapered shoulders, mounted in gold, ring size J. £300-£500

The glass intaglio could possibly be by Tomaso Cades of Rome, or William Tassie of Scotland. The subject is the Roman emperor Augustus depicted as a youth, before he became emperor and when he was known as Octavian.


See: The Classical Art Research Centre, Oxford, for images of the Tassie collection of intaglios, including a comparable example of Octavian.
https://www.carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/gems/James-Tassie