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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Etruscan and Roman Antiquities > Art from Southern Italy... > Bust of a child with...
Bust of a child with upraised arms
Artist : Anonyme

Date : near 50 B.C.

Material : Cameo
Acquisition : Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan (1917)
Dynastie Julio-Claudienne
Item 16 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Dishes (Fragment de skyphoi)

Vitrine : V01 (Ref. 6)

Area related
Empire romain


Description   

Cameo glass was extremely popular with the Roman aristocracy. Surviving pieces form some of the finest examples of ancient glassware.
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Les camées
Le terme de camée, emprunté de l'italien cameo est de même origine que camaïeu.

 
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