Gem
Ring
29-128-2123
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2123 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italian |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Italy |
| Creator | Pichler |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass (uncertain) | Sard (uncertain) |
| Technique | Intaglio |
| Iconography | Arethusa? | Signature |
| Description | Vermeule: Glass, imitating Sard. Intaglio. (Modern) Filleted head of a young woman facing to right. The type is that of the heads of Arethusa and similar mythological persons on South Italian and Sicilian Greek coins. Signed in Greek letters PICKLER. Neo-Classic. |
| Height | 1.8 cm |
| Width | 2.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2123 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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