| Object Number |
29-128-631 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Italian |
| Provenience |
Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location |
Italy |
| Period |
Renaissance |
| Date Made |
1500-1699 CE |
| Section |
Mediterranean |
| Materials |
Sardonyx |
| Technique |
Cameo |
| Iconography |
Medici Lady |
| Description |
Sommerville: Onyx. One of the Medici family. Maculated Pebbles, Etc, Case KK. Vermeule: Chalcedony. Cameo. (Unmounted). Portrait of a lady of the XVIth century facing left, identified by Sommerville as a member of the Medici family. |
| Height |
1.5 cm |
| Width |
0.9 cm |
| Credit Line |
Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number |
631 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Berges, Dietrich K. Höchste Schönheit und einfache Grazie. Klassizistische Gemmen und Kameen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville im University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia PA.. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf GMbH, 2011. See: p. 168, fig. 3, pl. 38 |
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| Vermeule, Cornelius C. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The University Museum, 1956. See: no. 425 |
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| Sommerville, Maxwell. Engraved Gems: Their History and an Elaborate View of Their Place In Art. Maxwell Sommerville, 1889. See: p. 708, no. 631, pl. 53 |
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| Sommerville, Maxwell. Engraved Gems. Philadelphia: D. Biddle, 1901. See: p. 81 |
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