IDENTIFIERS
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id:	176658
accession number:	PER.M.72-1923

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Gold, oval bezel with reeded sides and beaded inner frame, closed back, lotus flowers at the shoulders, flat hoop. Cameo opaque mottled red onyx on chalcedony. Bust of a woman, head swathed in cloth tied under chin with cap above, facing in profile to the right. Traces of a silenus mask embossed on the cap. A mask on the chest suggests that this piece has been reworked and extensively undercut from an earlier, possibly sixteenth-century bust of Minerva, or a portrait of a lady in that character.
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/176658





CATEGORIES
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category: jewellery

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	reworked in the eighteenth Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown


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