Gem

29-128-635

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 29-128-635
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Italian
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location Italy
Period Renaissance | Neoclassical
Date Made 1700-1850
Section Mediterranean
Materials Onyx
Technique Cameo
Iconography Eros | Cupid | Aphrodite? | Nymph
Description

Sommerville: Pale Onyx. Cupid Bathing the feet of a Nymph. Maculated Pebbles, Etc, Case KK.

Vermeule: Pale Onyx. Cameo. (Unmounted). Eros washing the feet of Aphrodite or a nymph in a large Roman-type foot bath. Neo-Classic.

Height 1.1 cm
Width 0.9 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number 625 - Sommerville Gem Number

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