Gem
Ring
29-128-1842
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 29-128-1842 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Neoclassical |
Date Made | 1700-1850 |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Sard | Gold |
Technique | Intaglio |
Iconography | Muse | Terpsichore | Tuscan Column | Lyre |
Description | Vermeule: Yellow Sard. Intaglio. (Modern gold ring setting) A muse, perhaps Terpsichore standing to left, at a Tuscan column; she is playing a large lyre. Neo-Classic, the design is copied from silver denarii of the Roman Republican monege. Musa. |
Height | 1.2 cm |
Width | 1.9 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 1842 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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