Gem
Stickpin
Object Number: | 29-128-2208 |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Italian |
Provenience: | Mediterranean |
Manufacture Location: | Italy |
Maker: | Morelli |
Period: | Post Classical |
Date Made: | 1739-1835 |
Early Date: | 1739 |
Late Date: | 1835 |
Section: | Mediterranean |
Materials: | Sardonyx Gold |
Technique: | Cameo |
Iconography: | Roma Helmet |
Height: | 1.4 cm |
Width: | 2.7 cm |
Depth: | 0.7 cm |
Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number: | 2208 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Description
Vermeule: Sardonyx. Cameo. (Modern gilt stick-pin setting) Helmeted, cuirassed bust of Roma facing to left. Signed MORELLI (1739-1835).
Bibliography:
[Book] Berges, Dietrich K. 2011. 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. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 204, fig. 77, pl. 139 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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