Do I remember correctly that the shepherdess cameo is Masnago? Is the pdf just a digital copy of the Met Bulletin for Cameo Appearances, a...
Love this. And really want that cabinet with all the shallow drawers. Tried to work out the writing but probably made errors in transliterating...
Agree with what has already been said. I'm confident Hera is shell. Doubt it would have been difficult when these were cut to find a 2cm segment...
Looking at her adornments, she's coming from wealth to have all those pearls, although they don't look so fine as you see in portraits of...
They were in existence at least as far back as the Renaissance, as the one Mirana's link leads us to. Trying to recall if I've seen any that were...
The little fisher person is Psyche.
The more I look at it & think about it, the more the helmet seems more like one that would suit the Roman war goddess Bellona. I agree that it...
2manybooks provided several links, one of which was:...
I agree that it has been set as a pendant relatively recently. Age of the shield itself...? My best shot is last third of the 19th century, when...
Weschler's got fooled by the wings in identifying Athena's companion as Hermes. It is Ares. Unlike Hermes, he is wearing a helmet & looks like...
I think is may be a sphinx, which is a common crest for Athena's helmet. This is from the 1st Dibs listing: [ATTACH] Unfortunately, terribly...
I think this is basically correct. A great amount of layered agate is this (non) color. I don't know if the beads are very old or just crude....
Not Normandy. As Bakers has pointed out, the orientation of the lions on the shield is in the wrong direction, to sinister, the shield bearer's...
[ATTACH]
But again do not once the reply becomes a post, becomes public.
I get the Steiners' newsletter, so knew this was going on.
I've seen a lot of Athenas, but never one quite like this. A very unusual representation, but I think it has to be Medusa, who was not originally...
@mirana Apologies for not praising your success earlier. Somehow I hopped over that post to your next one & did not see that the mystery had been...
I read Present [Current] Catalogue of Plaintiff.
Separate names with a comma.
