Gem
Stickpin
29-128-2572
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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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