IDENTIFIERS
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id:	176591
accession number:	PER.M.60-1923

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 31 January 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	ring

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before testator


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Spencer George Perceval Collection
creditline: S.G. Perceval Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176591





CATEGORIES
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category: jewellery

DATING
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creation date:	1500 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1500
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: mm
value: 15.5

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 12.5



CITATIONS
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Classical gems: ancient and modern intaglios and cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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