Cameo with Saint Nicholas

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12th–13th century · Moulded glass paste · Medieval Art

This glass paste imitation cameo is of Saint Nicholas of Myra, who wears clerical dress identifying him as a bishop. Expensive cameo and semiprecious hard stone carvings for personal devotion were so highly prized that imitations in glass paste were produced for the general populace in Byzantium and abroad.

Artist

Unknown

Date

12th–13th century

Medium

Moulded glass paste

Culture

Byzantine or Italian

Department

Medieval Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1918