Gem

29-128-796

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-796
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Post Classical
Date Made 1700-1880
Section Mediterranean
Materials Chalcedony
Technique Cameo
Iconography Man
Description

Sommerville: Chalcedony. Portrait, with the pallium or ermine cape. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case WW.

Vermeule: Chalcedony. Cameo. (Unmounted) Portrait of an elder man of the late 18th or early 19th century, wearing an ermine cape, a collar and a decoration. Late 18th or early 19th century.

Height 2 cm
Width 2.8 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 796 - Sommerville Gem Number

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