Gem

29-128-874

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-874
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Carnelian
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Man
Description

Sommerville: Carnelian. Incognito. Intaglios and Their Imprints, Case CCC.

Vermeule: Carnelian. Intaglio. (Unmounted) Diademed bust of a man with long hair facing to left. He appears to wear a close fitting cloth cap on the top of his head. Perhaps a person of the 18th cent. Neo-Classic

Height 1.2 cm
Width 1.7 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 874 - Sommerville Gem Number

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