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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1700 - 1900; Classification(s): jewellery, pendant; Acquisition: bequeathed by Perceval, Spencer George, 1922, Spencer George Perceval Bequest [PER.M.143-1923]
Description: Sardonyx, oval. Intaglio head of a young woman, her hair tied in a knot over the forehead and a ribbon at the nape of the neck, facing in profile to the left, after a marble Venus in the Capitoline Museum. Modern gold setting with sunken milled border, embellished with foliate scrolls and twin loops for attachment to chain as pendant. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | jewellery pendant Unknown | Temporal: | name=18th or 19th century; start=1700; end=1900 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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