IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31078 accession number: M.66-1982 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 6 May 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Polished brown and white banded agate with a matt cameo frieze illustrating scenes from the life of Bacchus, including Jupiter and Mercury presiding at the birth while an attendant nymph leads up a goat for nourishment, and Bacchus as a young man making merry from his chariot drawn by leopards, while maidens dance and satyrs play the pipes and cymbals, all framed above by a wreath of leaves issuing from twin grapevines. On wooden plinth. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Archibald Billing, Esq., M.D., A.M., F.R.S.; sold Christie's, 7 December, 1982, Antique Jewellery including A Collection of Cameos, p. 18, lot 90 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs J. Hull Grundy STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31078 PEOPLE ------------------- Jupiter Mercury Bacchus nymph satyrs maids SUBJECTS ------------------- chariot pipes vines chariot pipes vines TECHNIQUES ---------- polished brown and white banded agate, carved in relief carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture category: agateware DATING ------ creation date: 1875 - 1875 creation date earliest: 1875 creation date latest: 1875 culture: 19th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Isler, Luigi DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 10.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.2 CITATIONS -------- The Science of Gems Christie's Sale Catalogue, 7th December 1982 Stone Carving at Christie's ---