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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Italian, probably Neapolitan
Title:Choker with bust of a Bacchante
Date Made:ca. 1840-1850
Type:Adornment
Materials:Gray lava, gold
Place Made:Europe; Italy; Naples
Measurements:overall: 1 15/16 x 1 11/16 x 3/4 in.; 4.9213 x 4.2863 x 1.905 cm
Narrative Inscription:  None
Accession Number:  MH 1948.1.6.1.I(b).J
Credit Line:Gift of Henrietta Franchois Fitzmaurice (Class of 1896) in memory of Esther C. Fitzmaurice and Sarah A. Start (Class of 1852)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

Description:
Vertical oval carved lava belt ornament (converted from a pin-brooch) with profile portrait of a woman who is most likely a bacchante. She has long wavy hair which falls over her shoulder, ornamented by grape bunches and leaves. She wears a fringed garment draped over her shoulders (probably an animal skin, as would be appropriate for a bacchante, with more grape bunches and leaves trailing over her proper right shoulder.

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