IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 119029 accession number: MAR.M.275-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 10 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Enamelled gold pendant with volutes and ivy leaves linked by ribbonwork, with three black pearls hanging from the frame. Set with a sardonyx cameo, amber on creamy white over grey, with 'classical' female head wearing a bandeau and earring, her coiffure covered at the back with a veil tied in a knot at the soulder, facing in profile to the right. The back of the pendant encloses an oval moss agate. title: pendant NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/119029 CATEGORIES ------ category: jewellery DATING ------ creation date: 1580 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1580 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Classical gems: ancient and modern intaglios and cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ---