[ATTACH] I want this one. Europa? Or some kind of taurophilia?
At the Met, on a mezzanine above the main exhibits of the Greek & Roman department, there is a huge display of those tiny ring stones & no kind of...
The reading looks the same to me too, but in searching, I am only having a bit of luck with 'Zuieback'. Could it be?
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Very cheerful. Maybe it's Jan?
I used to put my 2 cents in on cameo listings that needed correcting quite a lot, when I was learning rapidly myself. Think only one person told...
Good thought. I'm not sure how, maybe because it was a special treat, but the pineapple became a symbol of hospitality. Pomegranates symbolize...
Pomegranate, I think. The seeds are quite large compared to the hundreds that must be in a poppy pod. While the body shape is not spherical, it...
See you have several little cowrie shell cameos among the ornamentation.
Venus, if she's looking in a mirror.
I've seen another one in the last day or two. We probably speculated about a dealer's mark because sometimes it occurs on a piece with another...
It's definitely the infancy of Zeus. The text for the Tassie catalogue names both goat & nymph Amalthea. But the story is that Cybele entrusted...
She's lovely, with an inquisitive look to her. Think your assessment of age is correct or close. Possibly a decade later.
Clock topper?
Yes.
Where do people get these ideas?! As you said, other listings are not off the wall. For heaven's sake, don't tell them it's signed or they'll...
As Mirana said, shell cameos are not so fragile as all that unless the shell is already compromised in some way, such as cracks or an unusually...
That pearl harness with the portrait miniature is very distinctive.
She's exactly the sort of thing most beginning cameo collectors like, so you have me intrigued about your preferences. She is helmet shell with...
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