Original language: XIX FRANCE ANTIQUE, TRES BELLE PETITE COUPE, VIDE-POCHE EN ETAIN SCULPTÉ PAR CELEBRE SCULPTEUR FRANÇAIS VIRGILE MOREY.
It's a dolphin.
She's quite nice, salvaged from a helmet shell cameo. Psyche: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/psyche
Not quite the right color for either rhodonite or rhodochrosite. Looks more like something that would fall into the broad category of jasper, an...
Maybe part of a candle luster/lustre, something that way? Clearly not suited to serve as a bowl unless a metal pedestal screwed on.
Judging by the number of small gorgoneion cameos, loose, or in Roman rings of various qualities, these must have been very popular for their...
Hah! Now I'm not the only one bringing cameos into threads as illustrations. The genre of this one is like the one @Jeff Drum uses as his avatar.
I may not have been the only one, but I have written elsewhere that diamonds are lousy ring stones (@komokwa 'cleavage') because they do...
Being Sunday lazy, so not checking facts. Think these contraptions test thermal conductivity, which seems to have a correlation with hardness on...
We can only hope. :chicken:
Ariadne. LOL Athena & Athena with a bit of facial fuzz & a lion added to the crest of the helmet to turn her into Mars, the aegis changed from...
It's sold now. Did you buy? Price is very good. Ivory, Venus spanking Cupid. (Bow on ground; wing pushed to the side by her left hand.) I...
There is a German antique jewellery business that lists on eBay & clearly uses a translation program for their English descriptions, without...
Definitely conch shell: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/materials-guide?start=1 These ladies decked out in roses are usually just...
I nearly commented on this up front; it is a typical sun symbol. If they are launching/beaching a canoe, it has a very angular prow (if that word...
The 'cameo of a gentleman in profile' is an intaglio of Socrates.
Only if you want her completely monochromatic. In my experience, the paint is water soluble.
Is there anything on the bottom of the stand?
Something to conjure with: [ATTACH]
Yes, Czech glass cameo. They were sold as jewellery components, so mount was probably made elsewhere. The underlying glass seems often to have...
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