The collars on all the ones I have seen that were verifiably old have been gilt, sometimes with the name of the subject written by hand in ink...
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The fad seems to have lasted for quite some time. After James Tassie had such great success, given a huge push when Catherine the Great ordered a...
I can't tell at the angle shown in the photo whether or not the 2 upper cameos are exact mirror images of each other. If they are, then they...
The first set are plaster impressions of engraved gems. These were collected avidly by people who pretended to some culture but could not afford...
My immediate impression also was of lyre strings, which would indicate the Muse Erato. But the more I looked, the more I saw a fanciful building...
There is certainly an art nouveau sensibility to it.
Welcome, Atlantis. Your description is fine. To the best of my knowledge, these are not made from pieces of a porcelain item that had great...
More likely meant for Athena & Aphrodite. The MOP is unusual in having what looks like a classical building in the field in front of her face, if...
Monila, Monita, Menila, Menita?
My guess is the potter's intention was that you could have it sitting or hanging, with flowers or an artsy arrangement of dried weeds.
Kind of like a wall pocket. How big is it?
Think the hole is just so you can hang it.
The people the figurines represent all look Japanese to me.
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My pronouns are 'she' & 'her'. I can't say anything definitive about your 2 items, but my thoughts/observations are: The one photo is not...
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Welcome, Andy, & ask away. Bronwentheprocrastinator.
My sense is that interest has been growing of late. Engraved gems wax & wane in popularity. Here & at CameoTimes.com I have been trying to...
It became a big problem in the period late 18th - early 19th centuries when collecting 'antique' (what we call as being from antiquity) intagios...
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