Gem

Ring

29-128-2334

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-2334
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1800-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Emerald | Gold | Glass Paste
Technique Cameo
Iconography Woman | Aphrodite?
Description

Vermeule: Plasma of Emerald. Cameo. (Modern Gold Ring Setting, surrounded in paste brilliants, some missing) Bust of a woman, probably based on Greek IV and later Aphrodite types, facing 3/4 to right. Neo-Classic, 19th.

Height 0.7 cm
Width 1 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 2334 - Sommerville Gem Number

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