A Grand Tour dark brown glass cast impression. Priam pleads with Achilles., Late 18th-early 19th century.
30 x 36 x 7 mm
Impression taken from a sardonyx intaglio by N. Marchant, circa 1784, for Francis Henry Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater (1736-1803), inspired by the sarcophagus coll. Borghese (Louvre, Paris); Cades 66, 409 ("from the bas-relief already in vila Borghese now in Paris").