Gem
Ring
Object Number: | 29-128-2107 |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Italian |
Provenience: | Italy |
Manufacture Location: | Italy Rome Milan (uncertain) |
Maker: | Giovanni Antonio Santarelli |
Period: | Neoclassical |
Date Made: | 1759-1826 |
Early Date: | 1759 |
Late Date: | 1826 |
Section: | Mediterranean |
Materials: | Chalcedony Gold |
Technique: | Intaglio |
Iconography: | Young Man Signature |
Height: | 2.7 cm |
Width: | 1.9 cm |
Credit Line: | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
Other Number: | 2107 - Sommerville Gem Number |
Description
Vermeule: Chalcedony. Intaglio. (Modern gilt ring setting) Head of a young man facing right. Signed "Santarelli." 18th century, possibly early 19th. Neo-Classic.
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. 298, fig. 258, pl. 399, 400 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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