Gem

Ring

29-128-2512

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-2512
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony | Silver
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Young Man
Description

Vermeule: Chalcedony. Intaglio. (Modern silver ring setting) Diademed draped bust of a young man facing to left. His features are those of a late Hellenistic Prince perhaps an African ruler of the Ist A.D. Neo-Classic.

Height 1.6 cm
Width 1.7 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 2512 - Sommerville Gem Number

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