IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 176658 accession number: PER.M.72-1923 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 31 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Spencer George Perceval Collection creditline: S.G. Perceval Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/176658 CATEGORIES ------ category: jewellery DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1800 culture: reworked in the eighteenth Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Classical gems: ancient and modern intaglios and cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ---