Gem

29-128-828

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-828
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Renaissance
Date Made 1500-1599 CE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Shell
Technique Cameo
Iconography Brutal Head | Female Head | Bearded General | Magi
Description

Sommerville: Three remarkably dissimilar heads, cut on the strata of one piece of conchiglia. Tenerae, Case ZZ.

Vermeule: Shell. Ren. Port. Cameo. (Unmounted) Three busts facing to left., from left to right: A brutal head. Female head with African features. A bearded general in helmet of XVIth century. "Three remarkably dissimilar heads, out on the strata of one piece of conchiglia."

Height 2.7 cm
Width 2.3 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 828 - Sommerville Gem Number

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