Description
The ring appears to be of gold foil wrapped over a light weight core. The carnelian intaglio gem, set flush with the face of the ring, shows Fortuna holding a cornucopia and a ship's steering oar.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
4/01/1970
Treatment
cleaned
Exhibitions
Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. 1996-1997.
Provenance
Dr and Mrs. Robert Fox, Baltimore [acquired in Istanbul, date and mode unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1969, by gift.
