Cameo with Mercury
1st century A.D.
Medium/TechniqueSardonyx
DimensionsLength: 3.4 cm (1 5/16 in.)
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number98.755
On View
Not on viewClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
Collections
ProvenanceSaid to have been found in Syria [note 1]. By 1892, Michal Tyszkiewicz (b. 1828 - d. 1897), Rome; June 8 - 10, 1898, posthumous Tyszkiewicz sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 274. 1898, Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), Rome and London; 1898, sold by Warren to the MFA for $69,618 [note 2]. (Accession Date: September 20, 1898)
Notes:
[1]Wilhelm Froehner, La Collection Tyszkiewicz (Munich, 1892), p. 31, pl. XXXIII, 3.
[2]Total price for MFA accession nos. 98.641-98.940.
Notes:
[1]Wilhelm Froehner, La Collection Tyszkiewicz (Munich, 1892), p. 31, pl. XXXIII, 3.
[2]Total price for MFA accession nos. 98.641-98.940.
15th century A.D.
1st–3rd century A.D.
1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D.
1st–3rd century A.D.
early 1st century A.D.
late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.
mid-1st century A.D.
1st century A.D.
late 1st century B.C.–mid 1st century A.D.
late 2nd–3rd century A.D.
