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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 view
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
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.

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