Onyx with a Roman float and two centaurs, An onyx with the image of a Roman float on which a laureated man sits with his wife and child. Two centaurs walk in front of the cart, an angel with a laurel wreath flies in the air. A decorated frame surrounds the onyx. The plate of the ornament was cut out and pasted within a print of a frame of an even larger ornament of jewels, rubies, cameos, etc. The onyx was to be sold at the Mint in Amsterdam on September 11, 1765. The print includes a sheet with description., print, print maker: Simon Fokke, (mentioned on object), after drawing by: Simon Fokke, (mentioned on object), Northern Netherlands, 1765, paper, etching, engraving, height, 563 mm × width, 575 mm
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