Cameo with portrait busts of an Imperial Julio-Claudian couple
mid-1st century A.D.
Medium/TechniqueSardonyx
DimensionsOverall: 4.8 x 4.3 cm (1 7/8 x 1 11/16 in.)
Credit LineHenry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession number98.754
On View
Not on viewClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
Collections
ProvenanceSaid to have been found in Egypt, in the Fayoum, and then to have been in the Giovanni di Demetrio Collection [note 1]. By 1892, Michal Tyszkiewicz (b. 1828 - d. 1897), Rome; June 8 - 10, 1898, posthumous Tyszkiewicz sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 273. 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, 2.
[2]Total price for MFA accession nos. 98.641-98.940.
Notes:
[1]Wilhelm Froehner, La Collection Tyszkiewicz (Munich, 1892), p. 31, pl. XXXIII, 2.
[2]Total price for MFA accession nos. 98.641-98.940.
15th century A.D.
1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D.
1st–3rd century A.D.
early 1st century A.D.
1st century A.D.
late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.
1st century A.D.
late 1st century B.C.–mid 1st century A.D.
late 2nd–3rd century A.D.
late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.