Title: Education of the Infant Bacchus
Object type: Cameo
Date: first half 19th century
Artist:  Niccolò Amastini 
Artist bio: born Rome 1780–1851
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Onyx, gold frame
Dimensions: Overall (in setting): 2 9/16 x 1 7/8 in. (6.5 x 4.8 cm); visible cameo, overall: 2 1/16 x 1 7/16 in. (5.2 x 3.6 cm), 52.3 x 36.3 mm
Classification: Lapidary Work-Gems
Credit line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Grapes, term: Infants, term: Men, term: Women, term: Bacchus, term: Lions