I have seen on YouTube clips of contemporary shell cameo carvers and also examples of their work on different websites. Do you know if anyone is...
Not so sure.
Thank you! I’m starting to like her. The boring sponge drills canals into the shell with holes coming up to the surface through which the...
My latest acquisition. To cheer myself up after returning the previous one. :rolleyes: [ATTACH]
Actually the boring sponge is not a predator but a filter feeder. They drill shells but also rocks and use the excavated canals as a safe place to...
Forgot to mention about the black spots. I think is the shellac cement used to secure the shell for carving....
Boring sponges. https://www.vattenkikaren.gu.se/fakta/arter/spongiar/clionida/clioe.html [ATTACH]...
Thank you! Very interesting info. Learned a lot.
@Bronwen, do you know what is the subject on this glass cameo? It looks very interesting. It’s not Adam and Eve, is it?
It appears to me, two works of art are most often found on “Three Graces” cameos. The first one: [ATTACH] The Three Graces and Venus Dancing in...
I thought it might be a good idea to have a thread dedicated specially for the original works of art and where they are at the present moment. In...
Then, like now, there must have been women who knew and women who didn’t what the subjects on their cameos are. Knowledge of the “classics” was...
Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss by Antonio Canova [ATTACH] http://musee.louvre.fr/oal/psyche/psyche_acc_en.html [ATTACH]...
Dancer by Antonio Canova [ATTACH]...
I keep thinking that, all those cameos depicting the muses, at the time when it was fashionable to wear a cameo, were a sophisticated way to show...
@Simona Buhus If you, as you said, are attracted to the mythological side of the Cameos than reading about mythology is the best way to...
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Muse-Greek-mythology Calliope: Muse of heroic or epic poetry (often holding a writing tablet). Clio: Muse of...
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[ATTACH] I’m very sad but I’ll have to let her go. :(
I can’t find a British hallmark that says “9 CT GOLD”. I would really appreciate any info or link about the subject.
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