Gem

29-128-610

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-610
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 Eros | Woman | Libation Bowl
Description

Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx. A Figure about to pour a Libation (Cinque-cento). Maculated Pebbles, Etc, Case KK.

Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Cameo. (Unmounted). Eros running to right, about to receive a bowl from a female figure kneeling at right. 15th or 16th century. 610, 614, 617 appear to have been carved by the same hand.

Height 0.9 cm
Width 0.7 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 610 - Sommerville Gem Number

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