Probably
Unknown
(Maker)
Gold, oval bezel with closed back, bordered with marcasite imitating rose-cut diamonds, triangular hoop split and filled with a leaf at shoulders. Cameo: onyx, opaque white on dark grey, head of the empress Sabina (d. A.D. 136/7), hair wound in plaits round the crown of her head, facing in profile to the right. Draped neckline.
History note: Unknown before testator
S.G. Perceval Bequest
Height: 16 mm
Width: 14 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1922)
by
Perceval, Spencer George
2nd half of 17th Century or 18th Century
Circa
1650
CE
-
1800
CE
Cameo composed of onyx ( opaque white on dark grey) Ring composed of marcasite gold
Accession number: PER.M.64-1923
Primary reference Number: 176624
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Ring"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176624 Accessed: 2022-07-07 11:30:33
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