Gem

29-128-2480

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-2480
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Neoclassical
Date Made 1800-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony | Silver
Technique Intaglio
Iconography Dionysis? | Ariadne?
Description

Vermeule: Chalcedony. Intaglio. (Modern Silver Ring Setting) A pair of lovers, perhaps Dionysos and Ariadne, walking to right. Earlier 19th, in imitation of a Graeco-Roman composition.

Height 1.8 cm
Width 2.8 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 2480 - Sommerville Gem Number

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