Currently not on view
Intaglio gem with angel in relief,
late 5th–early 6th century
Byzantine
y1940-393
Information
Title
Intaglio gem with angel in relief
Dates
late 5th–early 6th century
Medium
Yellow-brown glass set in silver mounting
Dimensions
2.6 x 1.9 x 0.7 cm (1 x 3/4 x 1/4 in.) (in setting)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
y1940-393
Culture
Subject
Acquired by Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., at at unknown date from an unknown source; given to the Museum in 1940 by Mather.
- Dorothy Eugenia Miner, Early Christian and Byzantine art: an exhibition held at The Baltimore Museum of Art, (Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1947)., p. 155; no. 768
- Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair, Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., cat. no. 146; p. 119
