Gem
Box Lid
29-128-2206
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2206 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italian |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Italy |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1700-1799 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sardonyx |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Maenad | Grapes | Ram Head |
| Description | Vermeule: Sardonyx - in several layers. Cameo. (Gilt box-top setting) Bust of a Maenad to left, grape leaves in the hair and a skin with a ram's head on the left shoulder. In XVIIIth or XIXth century. Italian, 18th century. |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2206 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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