Gem
Stickpin
29-128-2572
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2572 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1750-1899 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Agate | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Sappho |
| Description | Vermeule: Mottled Brown Agate. Cameo. (Modern gold stick-pin setting) Bust of a young woman of the Neo-Classic "Sappho" type to right. Hair bound by a double fillet and falling in tresses on the neck. Late 18th or 19th century work. |
| Height | 2.7 cm |
| Width | 1.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2572 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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