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29-128-2581

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-2581
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Post Classical
Date Made 1800-1899
Section Mediterranean
Materials Agate | Silver
Technique Cameo
Iconography Man
Description

Vermeule: Brown Agate. Cameo. (Modern silver ring setting) Draped bust of a bearded man wearing an oriental fringed cap, to left. Perhaps an Old Testament person is intended. 19th century.

Height 1 cm
Width 1.5 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 2581 - Sommerville Gem Number

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