Gem

Pendant

29-128-157

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-157
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony | Onyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Tears of Achilles
Description

Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx - The Grief of Achilles at the Death of his fiend Patroclus. A Greek Cameo. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case J.

Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Cameo. (Modern Gold pendant setting). Neo-Classic. "Tears of Achilles" copy of a fragmentary cameo of long Neo-Classic pedigree now in Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Length 5.4 cm
Width 3.4 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 157 - Sommerville Gem Number

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