Once upon a time, in all my poking around, I'm sure I read in some place I'll never find again, that some famous painter, one of the really famous...
Why? Moses had history in Egypt without Aaron. You wouldn't be a little bit biased? :joyful:
Doesn't Moses' staff turn into a snake at at some point? When trying to figure out cameos, I go on the assumption that the best known stories are...
This is good to know & I must try to remember it. My guess is that the new regulations were not universally adopted the day they went into...
No, it doesn't confirm it, but I see no reason to think the cameos are not contemporary with the settings. The first one has had the edges ground...
Probably Dieppe ivory work. I think belt buckle is a good guess, given the holes & the marks.
I have these in my 'Cameos to Study' folder, meaning I don't know what they are. I call it Separated Lovers. One of these is mine (the one with...
I have a mystery, a vexing mystery. Today, looking for a cameo example of something, I came across a photo of a cameo I had forgotten I own. I...
Hmm. If it's solid gold it's pretty good value for money. I do wonder what those areas that have photographed as red mean. Doesn't look gilt,...
It keeps coming back to me that in 100 years cameos like the blue one & the phantasmagorical creations coming out of Italy now will seem classic,...
It is if that mount is gold. And look at how solid all the findings are, particularly the way the pin stem is attached to the hinge. It's a...
Batch #2 First one, forget it. Looks like jeweller was valuing by settings with no appreciation for the cameos themselves. Second one is a type...
Only the Menelaus, the last one, is worth anything if the setting is a good one. The first is a very modern ultrasonically cut dyed blue agate...
The staff certainly is prominent on the cameo & in the story of Moses. This looks like a young man. Moses is typically depicted looking more...
No Steve Martin King Tut? I'm kinda liking the idea of Joseph + cutter's fantasy. So much more exotic than a tussle in a dark bedroom.
Pearls, pearls pearls!
On cameos, some have a drilled pupil & some don't. I never thought about it in relation to sculptural practices. Most of the time cameo cutters...
The little coral bar pin looks yummy, like candy. Interested to see the Neiger as I have occasionally run into Egyptian Revival beads attributed...
You could wear them 'confronted', facing each other. They're in the same mount. How did you come to have 2 so much alike?
I think our cameo cutter picked & chose his elements from various sources & we'll fall down a rabbit hole looking for narrative or historical...
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