Gem
Ring
29-128-1067
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1067 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sardonyx | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Meleager |
| Description | Sommerville: Pale Sardonyx. Meleager, the wild-boar hunter. Gold and Bronze Rings - Cameos, Case PPP. Vermeule: Pale Sardonyx. Cameo. (Modern Gold Ring Setting) Bust of a young man of Greek type facing, in very high relief "Meleager." Neo-Classic, probably copied from a marble portrait Tondo, representing a Greek-Roman man of letters (?) |
| Height | 1.8 cm |
| Width | 2.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1067 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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