Gem

Ring

29-128-1114

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1114
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Italian
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Italy
Period Post Classical
Date Made 1600-1699
Section Mediterranean
Materials Onyx | Chalcedony
Technique Cameo
Iconography Satyr | Kantharos | Pedum | Panther Skin
Description

Sommerville: Jasper-Onyx. Bacchanalian Figure, with a full cruche and an empty wine-skin. Gold Rings - Cameos, Case RRR.

Vermeule: Onyx-Jasper. Cameo. (Modern gold ring (reset) Mount) A satyr walking unsteadily to left, he holds a Karanthos in right hand, a pedum in crock of left arm and a panther skin over same. Italian, probably 17th century.

Height 2.4 cm
Width 1.8 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1114 - Sommerville Gem Number

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