IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 119017 accession number: M.38-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 19 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Onyx cameo opaque white on transparent chalcedony, mounted in gold as a pendant. Bust of Maria of Austria (1528-1603), with elaborate coiffure, bejewelled and wearing a high ruff and slashed sleeves, facing in profile to left. title: pendant NOTES ----- type: history note value: Max and Maurice Rosenheim collection; sold Sotheby's, 10 May 1923, lot 167. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Alfred A. De Pass STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/119017 CATEGORIES ------ category: jewellery DATING ------ creation date: 1550 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 2 CITATIONS -------- Classical gems: ancient and modern intaglios and cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ---