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Greek horse and rider / circa 550 BC Corinthian alabastron / circa 600 BC Greek sphinx / circa 400 BC Flask with two faces / circa 250 BC Athena / circa 100 AD Venus / circa AD 150 Intaglio / circa 100 BC-AD 100 Intaglio Roman, circa 100 BC-AD 100, in a 20th century silver setting Glass Height: 1 cm This intaglio bears a pastoral scene of a shepherd and two goats lying in the shade of a tree-a common subject for the engraved gems that most well-to-do Romans carried and used as seals, recalling the `caves and living lakes, sweet sleep below the tree' idealized in Virgil's Georgics. The silver setting is modern, though significant. In 1913 Freud set up the `Committee'-comprising Karl Abraham, Sandor Ferenczi, Ernest Jones, Otto Rank, Hanns Sachs and (later, in 1919) Max Eitingon. The group rallied to support Freud, and each member was presented with a ring-set intaglio. In later years, when the Committee had dissolved, Freud continued the practice by giving intaglios to other supporters, including Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, Lou Andreas-Salom'e Ernst Simmel (the original owner of this ring, presented in 1928) and Arnold Zweig.

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