Gem

Stickpin

29-128-2572

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-2572
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Post Classical
Date Made 1750-1899
Section Mediterranean
Materials Agate | Gold
Technique Cameo
Iconography Sappho
Description

Vermeule: Mottled Brown Agate. Cameo. (Modern gold stick-pin setting) Bust of a young woman of the Neo-Classic "Sappho" type to right. Hair bound by a double fillet and falling in tresses on the neck. Late 18th or 19th century work.

Height 2.7 cm
Width 1.9 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 2572 - Sommerville Gem Number

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