Maker: Unknown (Possibly)
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.
History note: Unknown before testator
S.G. Perceval Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
Reworked in the eighteenth Century
Circa
1700
CE
-
1800
CE
Cameo
composed of
onyx
( opaque mottled red)
chalcedony
Height 16 mm
Width 13 mm
Ring
composed of
gold
Accession number: PER.M.72-1923
Primary reference Number: 176658
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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