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Cameo with a Dancing Bacchant Set in a Pendant
323-30 BC (Hellenistic)
onyx; pendant: gold
This cameo shows a dancing bacchant with an animal skin over his left arm and a thyrsos in his right hand. The lower half is modern.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
de Montigny Collection, France, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson, London, by 1904, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22 June 1909, lot 70; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1909, by purchase]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Measurements
Overall: 9/16 x 13/16 in. (1.5 x 2.1 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1909
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
42.105