intaglio;
bracelet
- Museum number
- 1924,0308.1
- Description
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Intaglio; onyx; oval; nude male figure poised on his toes, his left arm extended, his right arm pulled back behind his head, possibly representing a boxer; set into a bracelet slide in enamelled gold with openwork border, the back with various flowers in colours on a white ground. Two raised bars enable a ribbon to slide through.
- Production date
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16thC (intaglio)
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17thC(early) (mount)
- Dimensions
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Length: 3 centimetres
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Width: 2.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Illustrated in H. Tait (ed.), Jewellery through 7000 years, exhibition catalogue, British Museum 1976, no. 302 (reverse only) and in H. Tait (ed.), 7000 Years of Jewellery, BM 1986 (reprinted 1996), no. 368, pp.165-166.
See also, 'Catalogue of the Marlborough Gems', sale cat., Christie's, London, 28 June 1875, lot 612, where the intaglio is described as possibly a boxer, and as an Arundel gem, with the reference: Cat. Thec. E, No. 6.
- Location
- On display (G46/dc12/p1/no19)
- Acquisition date
- 1924
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1924,0308.1
