Gem

29-128-780

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Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-780
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Russian
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Aetai | Russia
Creator After Feodor Tolstoi | Imperial Kolyvan Stone Cutting Factory
Period Neoclassical
Date Made ca. 1825
Section Mediterranean
Materials Siberian Jasper | Onyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Warrior | Helmet | Shield | Spear | Tsar Alexander I | Rodomysle
Description

Sommerville: Agate-Onyx. A warrior with Shield and Lance. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case VV.

Vermeule: Agate-Onyx. Cameo. (Unmounted) Bust of Czar Alexander I of Russia facing left in ancient style armor. Wears an elaborate plumed helmet and a breast plate, carries a shield and spear. Probably late 18th or 19th century, and features are those of a person of those periods.

Kagan: Tsar Alexander I as Rodomyste Aetai, Russia C. 1825. Imperial Kolyvanfact; unfinished piece - roughly around Alexander's death(?)

Height 5.6 cm
Width 3.7 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 780 - Sommerville Gem Number

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