Ivory portrait medallion of a lady

An image of Sculpture / Medallion. Portrait Medallion of a Lady. Unknown Maker. Ivory carved in high relief, with a horizontally chiselled ground, height, whole, 7.8 cm, width, whole, 6.0 cm, circa 1700. European.

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Sculpture / Medallion. Portrait Medallion of a Lady. Unknown Maker. Ivory carved in high relief, with a horizontally chiselled ground, height, whole, 7.8 cm, width, whole, 6.0 cm, circa 1700. European.

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Accession Number: M.4-1991
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 819 pixels
Image width: 607 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 264.39kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:01:30 13:03:33

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18th Century bodice carved costume curls curly decolletage decollete fashion fashionable female Fitz_AA hair hairstyle high hair ivory lady medallion oval portraits relief sculpture wigs woman

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