Gem

Ring

29-128-2020

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-2020
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Carnelian | Gold
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Bearded Man
Description

Vermeule: Carnelian. Intaglio. (Modern Gold Ring Setting) Bearded head of a man facing to left. The features copy those of a gem portrait of the Greek IVth. Century or Hellenistic periods. Neo-Classic

Height 0.8 cm
Width 1 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 2020 - Sommerville Gem Number

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