Gem
Ring
29-128-2405
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 29-128-2405 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Mediterranean |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Date Made | 1700-1850 |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Carnelian | Sardonyx |
| Technique | Cameo |
| Iconography | Centaur | Eros |
| Description | Vermeule: Carnelian-Sardonyx. Cameo.(Modern gilt ring setting) Old Centaur hands tied behind him, tormented by an Eros on his back. Design copies a Hellenistic statuary group of which versions exist from as late as the Roman II A.D. in the Museo Capitolino in Rome, the Vatican Museum and the Louvre. |
| Height | 3 cm |
| Width | 2.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 2405 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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