cameo

Florentine Manufacture, Vase with Cover Lapis lazuli, Gold, Enamels Florence, Museo degli Argenti. SANTA ANA, CA.- Gems of the Medici, an acclaimed international exhibition, highlights some of the oldest and most unique pieces of the Medici collections including antiquities dating from the 1st Century BCE as well as a cornelian which was part of the Seal of Nero. This touring exhibition will transport visitors to 15th century Italy and beyond by experiencing the captivating world of one of history’s most intriguing families.... [Lire la suite]

Hellenistic, cameo, 4th century BC. Hippolyte with a hunting companion,Phaedra with her nurse (right). Phaedra entrusts the nurse with a message declaring her love, her stepson Hyppolite refuses her advances. Greek myth and play by Euripides. Cameo, 4,1 x 3 cm. Inv. 25834. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy.

Queen Elizabeth I Cameo Locket.  Gold, Sapphire, Onyx, Enamel, Miniature. Private collection. The oval gold locket enameled with black and white pea-pod ornament at the sides is mounted on the lid with a sapphire cameo portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) and with an onyx cameo bust of Cleopatra with the asp on the back. Inside there is an enameled miniature of Charles I (1600-1648) facing front with a melancholy expression, wearing sash of the Order head standing out against a celestial blue ground. Locket: early 17th... [Lire la suite]

Cameo: Alexander hunting boar, Italy, 1st century AD. Sardonyx, 2 x 2.2 cm

Cameo: Triumph of Dionysus, Alexandria, 1st century BC. Sardonyx (on carnelian plaque), 4.2 x 2.7 cm 

Earring with Nike driving a two-horse chariot, about 350–325 B.C. Gold. Henry Lillie Pierce Fund. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston opened a new gallery of Gems and Jewelry of the Ancient Mediterranean with more than 250 beautiful objects, many of them precious and rare. Half of the works are gems from the Museum’s world-class collection of about 700 Greek and Roman gems, considered the finest in the United States. The other half of the gallery showcases brilliant examples of... [Lire la suite]

Cameo Portrait of Emperor Augustus, 41–54; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Sardonyx

Athena wearing the ægis. Sardonyx cameo, late 1st century BC 

Pendant with thirteen cameos. Early 17th cent. French. Gold, émail en ronde bosse, émail champlevé, sardonyx, turquoise, black and white onyx, sard, brown and grey agate, black and grey agate, niccolo: 3.0 x 8.9 cm. RCIN 65256. Documented in the Royal Collection before 1755. The Royal Collection © 2012, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Gold openwork pendant with opaque white and middle-blue enamel foliate scrolls and two dragons on cornucopiae in opaque mauve, translucent green and opaque... [Lire la suite]

Sardonyx cameo (c.1st C. AD, setting c. 17th century)