I thought so too, but looking more closely, the object near his raised hand strikes me as being just another little area of blue color that...
Is this perhaps a boy rather than a grown man? It looks to me like he's running.
When it has black inclusions like this it is called rhodonite.
It's a famous sculpture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Victrix_(Canova) [ATTACH]
There were two versions of this theme among the Poniatowski gems, both with the false signature Apollonides. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/198338 [ATTACH] https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/243611 [ATTACH]
It's also the vertical lines after the letters. Unusual for initials.
How was this determined? It is common, maybe more the rule than the exception, that bezel mounts for cameos are not composed of the same metal in...
Or "very unique".
The copyright may be laser cut, but the image is ultrasonically cut, a process that allows for endless copies of a single image. This has come up...
@spartcom5 Does this turn into anything legible when seen in person? [ATTACH] I don't think the museums/auction houses will be able to...
I could not find it among the Poniatowski gems catalogued by Oxford's Beazley Archive. Now I'm going to be nagged by where Liberotti found it....
Wonder if Grandma married into this family: http://www.vanvoorhees.org/history.php
Too bad the bead purse was not part of the lot.
Provenance, with such clear evidence of age, is always an asset.
I think the AB (aurora borealis) finish rules out rock crystal. The way the metal has corroded also argues against stone.
Welcome, jamaork22. What can you tell us that you have learned from your 15+ years of research, so that we don't have to start from scratch?
Where are you? SS said $700.
This is what the Beazley Archive calls an "unpublished Tassie": https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/2ABFEF42-23F0-46EC-86DD-2175EDFBCDAD...
Size & weight do not, of course, equate with quality, but I'd be pretty chuffed if this one came into my hands, for the quality of the carving and...
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