Gem
Ring
29-128-2175
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2175 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1700-1799 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sardonyx | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Child | Lamb | Saint John? |
| Description | Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. (Modern Gold ring setting) A child walking to right, carrying a lamb over shoulders in the "Good Shepherd" schema. The child is probably the infant St. John the Baptist. 18th century |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2175 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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