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As the cities buried by the eruption of Vesuvius were excavated, the finds published & eventually opened to the public, frescoes found at Pompeii...
In the mid-60s things were usually marked W. Germany or GDR. The design may be copyright mid-60s but manufacture probably after reunification.
Well, well, well. Carnesecchi does pop up, doesn't he? I suppose it's possible Scipio(ni) did the metal work, but dealer/shop feels more likely...
The resource I am using is the 2 volume La collezione Paoletti/Stampi in vetro per impronte di intagli e cammei. In tomo VI, impressions 1 - 200...
Without having seen what you saw in your researches, I would guess that some of the Asian ones were carved abalone, but the ones with a shape like...
'Headband Girl' (my designation), probably the single most reproduced cameo that has ever been. Most of them are glass.
Another source of this Psyche is the cameo on the viewer's far right of the V&A's 'Spartan' tiara: [ATTACH] There is an Eros counterpart on the...
Oh, sorry. It's Greg I'm looking for. I think he knows about things like this but hasn't posted anything in a week, which is a long absence for him.
@gregsglass Where are you?
Forgot to tell you how much I like your new Psyche. Charles canted the head to an unusual angle. [ATTACH] [not mine]
A very nice result indeed.
You are very welcome.
Not a cameo in the strictest sense, but literally an engraved gem. The shell is oyster. What a fabulous example, both for subject matter & for...
This is one of the most famous cameos in the world: https://www.johndclare.net/AncientHistory/Agrippina_Sources6.html [IMG] The ringleted girl...
It does look like P Le or maybe P l e. The time period is that turn of the century period that seems such a black hole for names of active...
There is only the 18K mark that I can find, on the tongue of the clasp. What my jeweller says & what is correct are not always the same thing....
Some of them look like the Crusades. Some of them don't look very European.
Yes. To give a display some dimensionality instead of having everything sitting at the same level. The blocks can create platforms of 3...
As wiscbirddog said, only certain metals are attracted to a magnet, so that is not a guarantee that something is not metal. What does it sound...
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