Gem
Ring
29-128-1071
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1071 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Sard | Gold |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Cicero |
| Description | Sommerville: Sard. Cicero, the Roman orator. Gold and Bronze Rings - Cameos, Case PPP. Vermeule: Sard. Cameo. (Modern gold ring setting) Bust identified as Cicero, to right. The features and, in fact, the whole composition are copied from a bust of an unknown man of the late Republic in the Uffizi, Florence, which has long been mislabelled Cicero. cf. 2190 for similar composition/styling. |
| Height | 2.7 cm |
| Width | 1.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1071 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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