Gem
Ring
29-128-2250
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2250 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Plasma | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Philosopher |
| Description | Vermeule: Plasma? Cameo. (Modern gold ring setting). Laureate, draped cuirassed bearded man with features of the Greek philosopher type, to right. 18th or 19th century. Vermuele: Plasma? Cameo. (Modern gilt ring mount). Laureate, draped bust of a man to right. The features (of the "Aristotle" type) are copied from some older gem or Renaissance composition after the antique. Or the development of the Renaissance "Aristotle" from a Samothracian bust, see K. Lehmann, Hesperia. (This piece has two separate, but similar, Vermeule cards). |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2250 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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