Gem

29-128-1312

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-1312
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Post Classical
Date Made 1500-1599
Section Mediterranean
Materials Amber
Technique Cameo
Iconography Head | Child
Description

Sommerville: Amber cameo. A child's head. Of the sixteenth century. Ambers, Case DDDD.

Vermeule: Amber. Cameo. (Unmounted) Broken on all edges. Head of a child, facing. Sommerville terms the cameo work of the 16th century.

Height 1.5 cm
Width 2 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 1312 - Sommerville Gem Number

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