Yeah, the war caused a real rift on Olympus. Venus was also on the side of the Trojans. Zeus eventually decreed that they all stay out of it.
If it's signed by a recognizable name the price is reasonable for retail, not for resale.
A basilisk.
I wondered whether anyone would remember the Pacer.
What is the ice cube test?
My cats have staff. OK, so it's Aaron with the prominent staff (hush, komokwa!) & he wouldn't be there without Moses along. I think they can be...
Or the eagle that is his servant, attacking a snake encircling the scene as an ouroboros. Now where the heck is it?!
Welcome, Nazim. Fridolina's Venus cameos were inspired by Venus wearing a diadem, like your terracotta head, but they are from the 20th century,...
It's a nice piece & does appear to be hardstone, but too much money. If you're going to spend that much, you do need to consider whether you will...
Bronwen is happy to hear it. The realm of cameos is so much greater than most people now realize, the world is so flooded with mediocre carved...
Isn't it a shell cameo? It weighs next to nothing, so total weight is close to gold weight. Pin stems are often a lower fineness of gold or not...
They don't have the teeth you see on dress & shoe clips.
I noticed it was lower priced than others, probably because it is small & not 'pretty'. There is probably more gold in that mount than in most of...
Have you tried wearing them? Fit on an ear lobe? Stay on? Reasonably comfortable? I think the title should have been Antique? Earrings. They...
Brava! So I was right about it, she says modestly. I can't tell you much more than you have already told us except one thing. There is...
There's some resemblance to a laurel wreath with an olive branch inside it, but that would be very western symbolism, so I doubt it's correct. I...
I was thinking Lord of Misrule too, with the actual mayor or whoever runs the place at his high table. The figure in the background (facing...
It was for me too. Yoohoo! Lover boy! Now where did that man go?
Now & again I stumble into the answer for one of my Cameos to Study, usually while trying to find out about something else.
Thought of Pyramus & Thisbe. While also kept apart by their parents' hostility to one another, there's no scene like this in the tale.
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