Roman relief portrait
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1966
- Dimensions
- 4 x 3 cm
- Vendor
- Trustees of Capt. E G Spencer-Churchill
Portrait-relief gem of woman in profile to right.
Hair in ribbon under 2 rows of curls, plaited at back and tied in loop at nape of neck. Closely resembles Sainte-Chapelle cameo identified as Agrippina, wife of Germanicus and mother of Caligula. Subsequently discovered to be a forgery.
Provenance
Capt E.G.Spencer-Churchill.