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29-128-619

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-619
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Italian
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Renaissance
Date Made 1500-1599
Section Mediterranean
Materials Agate
Technique Cameo
Iconography Youth? | Mask?
Description

Sommerville: Red Agate. A Mask. Maculated Pebbles, Etc, Case KK.

Vermeule: Red Agate. Cameo. (Unmounted). Mask-like head of a youth, facing. 16th., in imitation of some antique representation of a Roman boy.

Height 0.5 cm
Width 1 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 619 - Sommerville Gem Number

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