I've seen another one in the last day or two. We probably speculated about a dealer's mark because sometimes it occurs on a piece with another...
It's definitely the infancy of Zeus. The text for the Tassie catalogue names both goat & nymph Amalthea. But the story is that Cybele entrusted...
She's lovely, with an inquisitive look to her. Think your assessment of age is correct or close. Possibly a decade later.
Clock topper?
Yes.
Where do people get these ideas?! As you said, other listings are not off the wall. For heaven's sake, don't tell them it's signed or they'll...
As Mirana said, shell cameos are not so fragile as all that unless the shell is already compromised in some way, such as cracks or an unusually...
That pearl harness with the portrait miniature is very distinctive.
She's exactly the sort of thing most beginning cameo collectors like, so you have me intrigued about your preferences. She is helmet shell with...
I was expecting to see a little brown jug. I would call this a ewer, part of a washstand set that would have had a basin to go with it. What a...
We actually have more than one cameo expert & quite a lot of cameo expertise contained in past postings. We never get tired of seeing more...
Only the third of these looks like John the Baptist as I'm used to seeing him, although the second is suitably scrawny & ragged. The robes on the...
A monk with a book makes me think of St. Jerome.
Evangelists are traditionally depicted as barefoot, as I believe our friend here is.
Or steps. The Virgin Mary didn't dress like a Renaissance lady and yet...
St. Anthony is traditionally shown with the Christ child sitting on his arm, facing outward.
Maybe it's anno 1750/Christus, instead of Anno Domini? Numbers below look like a price. My first, vague, thought is one of the evangelists.
Your observations are all spot on. I'm using 'undercutting' to mean any place that is separated from background or from other elements such that...
Is there any undercutting? Can you catch a fingernail anywhere around the edge of the figure? My immediate impression is that it is molded. The...
Lovely & luminous. Good catch.
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