The helmet shell cameo is of Psyche. My guess would be 1930s for the whole piece.
First piece looks made by Patrice Jewelry.
For starters, it has assay marks for 18K. I have been told Egyptian gold can be odd degrees of fineness due to melting down & blending pieces of...
I think it's yummy, no matter who made it.
Maybe because auction house did no research at all & added that it could be 'C Lodion' & OP wanted other opinions? Dunno, will have to wait for...
Maybe Alynn was the winning bidder?
Venus it is. [ATTACH] 'Clodion' 'borrowed' quite a bit.
Turbo marmoratus, green turban shell.
If the lady were draped solely in grape vine, she would be a bacchante (maenad), one of the female followers of the wine god Bacchus (Dionysus)....
My thoughts on the twosome were Shylock & Jessica or Isaac & Rebecca (Ivanhoe).
The fantastical crest on the helmet does it for me, in conjunction with the other points.
Bellona.
Perhaps. It's certainly not impossible for the handle to be stone. It's just that other elements look to me like imitations, of gold, of nicolo,...
I think this desk seal is genuinely antique at this point, but faux in other ways. It's easy to see now that the fittings were once meant to look...
I find that maker's marks are extremely rare, but have many times seen a row of 3, necessarily partial, marks on pin stems. We'll have to wait &...
The other figure in the scene is Hebe, daughter of Jupiter/Jove/Zeus & cupbearer to the gods before being replaced by Ganymede.
The cameo in this FAP frame is turn of the 20th century: [ATTACH]
The ring looks like mid 1960s - early 1970s to me, when both Victorian revival & dome rings were in. It could be silver; lots of costume rings...
Beat me to it. :kiss::kiss:
It looks like Tatia to me.
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