For a split instant I thought you were talking about Queen the Fifth. :clown: I love conch shell cameos because of the scope they give for...
Thank you for bringing Gabrielli out of the shadows. Have saved your work to my signatures file. The Countess of Rosebery & her children look...
Don't you just love when that happens. I found I had bought several signed pieces early on, before I even knew to check. Sellers were of course...
Speaking of errors auction houses make, it is of course Zeus, not Hercules. For some Sunday morning (EST) eye candy, the catalogue with the...
Exhibition catalogues are so useful. I'm going to guess that Rudolph Hahn was a dealer both in worked & unworked stones, not a steinschneider...
Having spent some time gazing & going back & forth, I believe - hubris is going to get me one of these days - that the Hermitage got it wrong, &...
Weasels' coats turn white in winter. When they're white, we call them ermine.
Congratulations to PepperAnna is she was LiveAuctioneers Bidder 943, winner of the Froullé framed cameo. Or condolences, if not. It was rapidly...
If there's only one, it's a putto. This one has run his drumstick through the drum heads. Did it happen when he fell? Or did he fall in grief...
Another way to know which way is up on a pin or brooch is by the orientation of the hinge & clasp. They are almost always made for the right...
It's the Portland Vase, which Wedgwood was the first to successfully reproduce in ceramic.
Does the clock run? Does it keep good time? Look for any chips to the stone. It looks like a lovely piece, although in the taste of another...
Do you want it to keep for yourself or do you want to sell it again?
Think I would have learned 'callipygous' in a college mythology class, as a descriptor of Aphrodite. Can't recall about the other. A now...
Words, you want words? How about steatopygous & callipygous (which is an epithet of Aphrodite.)
As komo would say, U R. My dad, who would not have understood my interest in cameos, much less the amount of money I have spent on them, moved...
Could have been a cloak buckle rather than a belt buckle. Agree with AJ that it is the half that had the hook.
This one strikes me as very similar work, although not signed anywhere visible in the single photo. (Aside: how do sellers expect you to pay...
I couldn't find their Terms & Conditions anywhere. What do they accept for payment, etc.?* Interesting to see that this cameo came from a...
Russian or French, the painting does not strike me as reaching the level even of competent. Leave it.
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