Maker: Unknown
Plain gold with large flat oval bezel with sardonyx cameo head and bust of Christ wearing classical dress brooched at the shoulder, facing in profile to the right. The layers have been utilised and polished so as to present a chiaroscuro effect to the head, giving it an air of transcendent mystery.
History note: Unknown before testator
S.G. Perceval Bequest
Height: 15.5 mm
Width: 12.5 mm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
Renaissance
Circa
1500
-
1800
This type of head connects with a series of medals, plaquettes and paintings current in Italy in the sixteenth century and later, based on an emerald portrait now missing which was supposed to have been presented by the Sultan Bajazet to the Pope.
Ringstone
composed of
sardonyx
( tawny brown over white on pink)
Ring
composed of
gold
Accession number: PER.M.60-1923
Primary reference Number: 176591
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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