Gem
Ring
29-128-2402
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2402 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sardonyx | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Aristotle | Inscription |
| Description | Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. (Modern gold ring setting) Stamped on interior PEST (Budapest(?)) Bust of an elderly bearded man to right. The features are of the Renaissance Aristotle type, derived ultimately from a drawing made by Ciriacod Ancona on Samothrace about the middle of the 15th century. Neo-Classic. |
| Height | 1.4 cm |
| Width | 1.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2402 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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