Object Number | 29-128-1241 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Graeco-Roman |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Paste |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Aphrodite | Venus | Nymph |
Description | Sommerville: Antique paste intaglio. The Couch of Venus, nymph in attendance. Antique Pastes, Case YYY. Vermeule: Glass paste, imitating Emerald. Intaglio (Unmounted) Aphrodite reclining to left, on a couch. She raises her left hand to Ares who approaches from the left. Graeco-Roman, the composition undoubtedly based on a painting or a relief of the later Hellenistic period. |
Length | 1.4 cm |
Width | 1.2 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | GL01b (ancient glass project) - Other Number | 1241 - Sommerville Number |
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