Gem
Object Number: | 29-128-630 |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Italian |
Provenience: | Italy (uncertain) |
Manufacture Location: | Italy |
Period: | Renaissance |
Date Made: | 1500-1699 CE |
Early Date: | 1500 |
Late Date: | 1699 |
Section: | Mediterranean |
Materials: | Chalcedony Onyx |
Technique: | Cameo |
Iconography: | Medici Lady |
Height: | 2.1 cm |
Width: | 1.5 cm |
Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number: | 630 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Description
Sommerville: Chalcedony-Onyx. Donna, of the Medici family. Maculated Pebbles, Etc, Case KK.
Vermeule: Chalcedony-Onyx. Ren. Port. Cameo. (Unmounted). Bust of a lady of Medici family, to right.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Cameo and Intaglio: Engraved Gems from the Sommerville Collection (30 Nov 1956 - 31 Mar 1957) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
[Book] Vermeule, Cornelius C. 1956. The Sommerville Gem Collection of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: no. 429 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Book] Sommerville, Maxwell. 1889. Engraved Gems: Their History and an Elaborate View of Their Place In Art.. Maxwell Sommerville. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 708, no. 630 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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