Gem

29-128-615

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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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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