Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

I have always assumed that in most cases the person who cut the cameo & the one who 'commessed' it are not the same person. I could be completely wrong, but they seem like somewhat separate skills & visions. Have never seen one where I thought the cameo was cut with the expectation of embellishment.

 

I think Plato gets the wings for the Phaedo.

 

@PepperAnna Stumbled across a Paoletti impression of a bearded figure with little rounded wings more at the back of the head described as Indian Bacchus with the wings of Sleep, in the index as Sonno, Sleep. Another entry for Sonno looks more like yours. (Tomo I, 459 & 470)

 

Hello everyone. I’ve been wandering here for some while and posts here gives a lot help with my collection. I want to start sharing here with some of my collection as thanks for all the help, and make contributions to the group as well. Recently I’ve acquired this beautiful Medusa, and there seems to be a signature on the back. I can’t tell what the signature is. Please help me recognize it if you have any thoughts, thank you very much!

 

Oh, she is a stunner. Mount not too shabby either. We like our photos full size.





Are we seeing everything inscribed on the back in the photos? Nothing you can see but camera didn't capture? I feel as though I have seen these marks before, but...? Floor is open to all & any suggestions.

(Like your avatar too.)

 

Welcome, @nick1998 ! I'm mostly a lurker in this thread. Your cameo is gorgeous!

 

Simply amazing- I'm jelly. Congratulations!

 

I believe this is silverplated. The catch slot where the pin goes is in the middle of the clasp. I will further clean and lightly like her. Is she Art Deco period?

 

Holy cow! If I came across that I would probably faint dead away!!!!!!

 

NICE! I'm seeing somehing and then "Jr". No idea if any carvers were father and son acts or not.

 

I think of these as "Corsage Lady". She seems to be a modernization of the earlier neoclassical Flora types, first appearing in the 1930s & continuing into the 1940s. I see her as having more of a retro art nouveau look, a romantic image of womanhood, updated from the goddesses of yore.

Think your girl was not just cut in Italy but set there as well, so good chance metal is 800 silver.

 

There were father/son & uncle/nephew gem engravers, but do not know of any where both had the same first name & used Junior to distinguish one from the other. It does look like it could be Jr. Tr or Fr wouldn't entirely surprise me either.

I think what's tickling my memory is some points of resemblance with the signature of Filippo Verge, but that's not it.

 

Thank you @Bronwen for helping with the photos! I’m editing from my mobile and everything is still unfamiliar to me. Guess I’ll have to take some time to get used to it.

As for the marks on the back, I remember checked it all and the scratches in the photo is the only thing I saw, but sometimes clue of signs go easily out of my notice. I left it back home, not with me currently. But I’ll go back home recently, and I would check it carefully and then update what I found here.

Also, for the suggestion @Bronwen @evelyb30made, it gives me some hint. What if the later on is “F” something, could it be a reduction of “Fec”, short for “Fecit”? I’m only thinking of this because of how the Saulini like to sign their works.