| Object Number |
29-128-989 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Provenience |
Mediterranean |
| Period |
Renaissance |
| Section |
Mediterranean |
| Materials |
Gold | Onyx |
| Technique |
Cameo |
| Iconography |
Medici Lady |
| Description |
Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx. A Medici (cinque-cento). Gold and Silver Rings - Cameos, Case JJJ. Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Ren. Port. Cameo. (Gold ring setting) Bust termed that of a Medici woman of XVIth century facing left. |
| Height |
1.8 cm |
| Width |
1.1 cm |
| Credit Line |
Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number |
989 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Berges, Dietrich K. Höchste Schönheit und einfache Grazie. Klassizistische Gemmen und Kameen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville im University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia PA.. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf GMbH, 2011. See: p. 170, fig. 5, pl. 40 |
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| Vermeule, Cornelius C. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The University Museum, 1956. See: no. 427 |
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| Sommerville, Maxwell. Engraved Gems: Their History and an Elaborate View of Their Place In Art. Maxwell Sommerville, 1889. See: p. 733, no. 989 |
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