Four Treasures Reference Database
Record No. 27069
Catalogue of the Collection of Antiquities formed by James, Ninth Earl of Southesk K.T. | Edited by his Daughter Lady Helena Carnegie
Book
Carnegie, H. (1908) Catalogue of the Collection of Antiquities formed by James, Ninth Earl of Southesk K.T. | Edited by his Daughter Lady Helena Carnegie. London, Bernard Quaritch, 2 Vols., 226, 152 pp., many plates
Sinkankas/Born No.: 1151; NIB | RWHL
gems, glyptic, engraved gems, agate, cameo, intaglio, seals, cylinders, collection, comparanda, catalogue
Sinkankas: Describes 449 gems, plus an additional 159 cylinders: material, shape, dimensions, provenance, etc. The collection was begun by the Earl in 1878. Several specimens are illustrated in works of C. W. King, the Hope Collection catalog by B. Hertz, and others, as mentioned in the preface to the first volume. Plates depict as many as twelve gems per plate.