cameo;
finger-ring
- Museum number
- 1799,0521.75
- Description
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Cameo; onyx; bust of a Roman, perhaps Vespasian; signed; in modern gold ring.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 0.90 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from Dalton 1915, Catalogue of Engraved Gems:
For the signature, perhaps of Giovanni Pichler, cf. nos. 70, 96, 187, 193, 314, 664, 776, and see introduction, p. liii.
Supplementary information to Dalton 1915:
This is a copy of a gem called a portrait of Vespasian in the Medici collection, repr. GORI, Museum Florentium, Vol. I, pl. 6, c. 9.
- Location
- On display (G47/dc4)
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1799,0521.75
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: CRA.75 (Cracherode Collection)
