Object Number | 29-128-615 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Italian |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Manufacture Location | Italy |
Period | Renaissance |
Date Made | 1400-1499 |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Chalcedony | Onyx |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Donna |
Description | Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx. Donna. Maculated Pebbles, Etc, Case KK. Vermeule: Cameo. Chalcedony-Onyx. [unmounted] half figure bust of a woman of the 16th century type facing to right. Her jewellry and her slipped costume suggest she might be Cleopatra or even a Biblical figure such as Salome. 16th century |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 615 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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