You would expect it to be a lithograph, given the provenance, but doesn't appear to be. I'm interested to see how she placed a flower stickpin as...
Did you purchase it from a Netherlands seller? It's an interesting question I don't think anyone has ever taken up, just what tended to happen to...
Correct. Correct. Correct. I doubt it. Where in the world are you, Rec? They have not been as popular as mythological themes & "pretty...
The time of the expert who provided the answer is also valuable.
Fortunately it is only a collection of photos.
I'm seeing M (h? k?) t. However, neither H nor K is a letter you regularly see in in Italian names. (And K is something you do not see much in...
I would not be surprised if the scene is based on a French work of art, but the cameo is Italian.
They do help. What I thought I was seeing is really the back of the decoration on the front.
:eek::eek::eek::eek:! No more than I would use it on pearls. Unless you are talking hardstone, of course, then it's a question of the rest of...
Chances are a lot of the search results would be links back to this forum. We have mentioned Headband Girl & Ponytail Girl many times, here &...
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Real shell. Real glass. "Headband Girl."
If this was originally like one I have, a bail could slide on to the hook. Think a lot of removable bails got removed for good over the years.
In the Tassie impressions, there is a whole section of "Heads of Ladies, with the hair dressed in Greek or Roman fancy". Subcategories are...
Yes, what I think of as late stage peak, period when cameos highly popular, but not degraded by flood of some-guy-in-a-shed cameos, so 1890s or...
Welcome, Mark. Could you give us dimensions please? And please also show us other sides. Interesting item, lots of care put into making it....
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Please show us the piece again after its bubble bath. We love seeing the transformations.
Got interrupted on this. The cameo is cut in helmet shell, undoubtedly in Italy & probably in the vicinity of Naples. Based on the carving & the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Afraid I don't recognize this. If the author worked only in shell, never in hardstone, is probably little documented, if at...
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