Object Number | 29-128-431 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Mediterranean |
Period | Neoclassical |
Date Made | 1700-1850 |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Onyx |
Technique | Cameo |
Iconography | Pan |
Description | Sommerville: Dark Onyx. Deo Pan: the Pandean pipes hang on a branch. Cameo of the most exquisite fineness, cut by Girometti and signed by him. Observe even the toe-nails. Greek and Roman Cameos, Case Y. Vermeule: Dark Onyx. Cameo. Pan seated on ground left, contemplating his pipes which hang on a stump in front of him. Composition copied from a silver denarius of late Roman Republic of which only one specimen is known, now in a European private collection and formerly in the V.J.E. Ryan collection in London. |
Height | 2.3 cm |
Width | 1.9 cm |
Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number | 431 - Sommerville Gem Number |
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