Gem

Pendant

29-128-155

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-155
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Northern Europe
Period Post Classical
Date Made 1500-1599
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony | Onyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Heracles | Deianira | Children | Oak Tree
Description

Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx - Hercules and Deianira - the subject of this cameo remains in doubt to me for a long time on account of the child in the oak tree. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case J.

Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Cameo. (Gilt pendent mount; broken in three pieces and repaired.) Herakles confronting a seated female with a child beside her, two children in a tree in center. A subject identified by Sommerville as Herakles and Deiniara (?). The compositon, carved in a very high relief, is 16th century work perhaps carved in northern Europe.

Length 4.8 cm
Width 3.4 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 155 - Sommerville Gem Number

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