Gem
Ring
29-128-2334
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2334 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1800-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Emerald | Gold | Glass Paste |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Woman | Aphrodite? |
| Description | Vermeule: Plasma of Emerald. Cameo. (Modern Gold Ring Setting, surrounded in paste brilliants, some missing) Bust of a woman, probably based on Greek IV and later Aphrodite types, facing 3/4 to right. Neo-Classic, 19th. |
| Height | 0.7 cm |
| Width | 1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2334 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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