Gem
Ring
29-128-2232
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2232 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Renaissance |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sardonyx | Glass Paste | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Young Man |
| Description | Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. (Modern gilt ring setting, surrounded by paste brilliants) Bust of a younger man facing left. The features are copied from some ancient intaglio of the last half century of Roman Republic. |
| Height | 1.2 cm |
| Width | 1.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2232 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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