Gem
Stickpin
| Object Number: | 29-128-2253 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Italian |
| Provenience: | Mediterranean |
| Manufacture Location: | Italy |
| Period: | Post Classical |
| Date Made: | 1800-1899 |
| Early Date: | 1800 |
| Late Date: | 1899 |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Chalcedony Gold |
| Technique: | Cameo |
| Iconography: | Hebe? Maenad? Altar Eagle Bowl Oinochoe |
| Height: | 2.5 cm |
| Width: | 1.6 cm |
| Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number: | 2253 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Description
Vermeule: Chalcedony (or pale sard). Cameo. (Modern gold stick-pin setting). Hebe (or a Maenad) walking to right, looking back at an altar on which an eagle is drinking from a bowl. She holds the edge of her veil with the left hand, an oenochoe with the right. Italian, XIXth century.
Bibliography:
| [Book] Berges, Dietrich K. 2011. Höchste Schönheit und einfache Grazie. Klassizistische Gemmen und Kameen der Sammlung Maxwell Sommerville im University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia PA.. Rahden. Verlag Marie Leidorf GMbH. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 218, fig. 102, pl. 174 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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