Gem
Ring
29-128-1114
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-1114 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Italian |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location | Italy |
| Period | Post Classical |
| Date Made | 1600-1699 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Onyx | Chalcedony |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Satyr | Kantharos | Pedum | Panther Skin |
| Description | Sommerville: Jasper-Onyx. Bacchanalian Figure, with a full cruche and an empty wine-skin. Gold Rings - Cameos, Case RRR. Vermeule: Onyx-Jasper. Cameo. (Modern gold ring (reset) Mount) A satyr walking unsteadily to left, he holds a Karanthos in right hand, a pedum in crock of left arm and a panther skin over same. Italian, probably 17th century. |
| Height | 2.4 cm |
| Width | 1.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 1114 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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