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Ring with oval gem with dancing woman
Roman
Late Imperial Period
3rd–4th century A.D.
Medium/Technique
Gold and plasma
Dimensions
Length: 13 mm (1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Perry Warren
Accession Number27.783
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Rings
Catalogue Raisonné
Lewes House Gems, no. 124 (1920; 2002).
DescriptionPlasma, oval intaglio with highly convex front set in gold ring with hoop rounded outside and flat inside, and three swellings on each shoulder. Nude woman dancing and playing the flutes, seen from the back with head turned right. She holds some drapery swirling around her torso with her left hand. Partial groundline.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Charles Dawson Collection (according to J. D. Beazley, The Lewes House Collection of Ancient Gems, no.124: formerly in the possession of Charles Dawson at Lewes); by date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; April 5, 1926: loaned to MFA by Edward Perry Warren (as 131.26); November 17, 1927: gift of Edward Perry Warren to MFA