Gem
Ring
29-128-2584
From: Mediterranean
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 29-128-2584 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Russian |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Manufacture Location | Russia (uncertain) |
Period | Neoclassical |
Date Made | 1700-1799 |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Red Jasper | Green Jasper | Gold | Russian Jasper |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Polymphenia | Muse |
Description | Vermeule: Red on Green Jasper. Cameo. (Modern Gold Ring Setting) A woman of the 18th (?) leaning to the left on a column in the pose used in Graeco-Roman times for representations, the muse Polymphenia. 18th century? |
Height | 1.8 cm |
Width | 3.3 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 2584 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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