Gem
Ring
29-128-531
From: Sweden | Stockholm
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-531 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Balkan |
| Provenience | Sweden | Stockholm |
| Period | 19th Century |
| Date Made | 1800-1880 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Bronze | Gold Alloy |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Horse | Inscription |
| Description | Sommerville: Bronze, with gold alloy. The Sprig with Rose. Etruscan Seals, Scarabei, Intaglios, and Rings, Case FF. Vermeule: Ring: Bronze with gold alloy. Intaglio. A horse springing to left., with a rose beneath and another rose in the field above flanked by the letters I V; a wreath-like border surrounds the entire composition. Sommerville states "Bought of an Hungarian gypsy in an encampment near Carlberg, north of Stolkholm, Sweden." (See Carlberg Gypsies p 352). Possibly Graeco-Roman in a Balkan style; equally likely a 19th product based on ancient models. |
| Height | 1.1 cm |
| Width | 1.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 531 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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