Put a veil on it & you've got something. :nailbiting:
I think it is a smaller turtle. I like the specificity of the large one; looks like an actual tortoise.
I was considering that. May just do so as to make the rest of you crazy along with me. :D (We need a cameo emoji.)
Part of the charm of some of my cameos is that someone loved them enough to have them repaired.
I was already liking the little pumpkin shaped pot. I'll have them both, please. :turtle::turtle:
I saw this & wrote to Holly Trusted, with whom I'd had previous contact over the Ronca Psyche/Iris, showing her Nero & asking if they were sure...
Good to have the identifying painting. I see her also IDed as Amphitrite and Marine Venus.
The size & shape of the little beads are so variable that I have to suspect they are actual jet & not 'French jet', i.e., glass. No reason to...
Before I found this place, I posted some things on Collectors Weekly, including Nero....
What a gorgeous piece. Always so surprising when such work isn't signed. The Genius does have Apollo's original lyre, made with a turtle shell....
My feeling from the beginning has been that it was tacked down as an applique & then removed from a dress as being too nice to be discarded & kept...
Bell pull?
I had not seen this one before. Wonder where it was cut? And if Italy, how did cutter come to know that image? Isn't it immensely satisfying...
Yeah, right: Medium Bone Est: $500 - $750 Sold: $1,850
Not fasces?
I can't help but think the owner vowed never to take it off, for sentimental reasons that outweighed the condition of the cameo.
What is hard on a cameo is easy going for metal. Stracci is right. Someone never took this off. Water & soap & all the little knocks rings are...
Crewel embroidery & tole painting were fads in the early 70s, in there with latch hooking.
Which one's the tiny one? I'm in for the green one, if you're giving them away. :D
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