Gem
Ring
29-128-2584
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2584 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Russian |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Russia (uncertain) |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1799 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Red Jasper | Green Jasper | Gold | Russian Jasper |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Polymphenia | Muse |
| Description | Vermeule: Red on Green Jasper. Cameo. (Modern Gold Ring Setting) A woman of the 18th (?) leaning to the left on a column in the pose used in Graeco-Roman times for representations, the muse Polymphenia. 18th century? |
| Height | 1.8 cm |
| Width | 3.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2584 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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