Gem

29-128-825

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-825
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Glass Paste
Technique Cameo
Iconography Faun
Description

Sommerville: Paste. A Faun. Tenerae, Case ZZ.

Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating sardonyx. Cameo. (Unmounted) Bust of a Faun facing to left, the features are based generally on a IVth century Greek type such as the so-called leaning Faun or Satyr of Praxiteles. Neo-Classic.

Height 1.7 cm
Width 2.3 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 816 - Sommerville Gem Number | 825 - Sommerville Gem Number

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