Real shell. Real glass. "Headband Girl."
If this was originally like one I have, a bail could slide on to the hook. Think a lot of removable bails got removed for good over the years.
In the Tassie impressions, there is a whole section of "Heads of Ladies, with the hair dressed in Greek or Roman fancy". Subcategories are...
Yes, what I think of as late stage peak, period when cameos highly popular, but not degraded by flood of some-guy-in-a-shed cameos, so 1890s or...
Welcome, Mark. Could you give us dimensions please? And please also show us other sides. Interesting item, lots of care put into making it....
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Please show us the piece again after its bubble bath. We love seeing the transformations.
Got interrupted on this. The cameo is cut in helmet shell, undoubtedly in Italy & probably in the vicinity of Naples. Based on the carving & the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Afraid I don't recognize this. If the author worked only in shell, never in hardstone, is probably little documented, if at...
I would give it a good soak, maybe even overnight, in water with a dab of dish washing liquid soap. I just use tap water, but if you have...
No idea, really. The diadem says goddess, the bare breasts say Venus/Aphrodite. Doves are associated with her, so maybe that's what the dive...
She's an extremely common figure, but far from the worst. I will remind people again of [IMG] (The Guernica of cameos.) And yours is at least...
Leprechaun or adolescent Vulcan.
It's divine. What size is 'small'?
Set strikes me as more 1970s. I was given a torque-like silver necklace for Christmas '75. Don't remember it being 'a look' in the preceding...
I have more than once, while walking in a city park, received a positive comment from an oncoming 20-30 something on my sunglasses, which I would...
Did a little Googling so I don't misinform you too badly. "Prairie" seems to be what they call the style when it is by Frank Lloyd Wright,...
Very Prairie.
I have clicked best answer now & then, when someone really provides a definitive answer, but have not seen this flagging & highlighting before....
On one hand, the hinge & clasp make me think late 19th. On another hand, the cameo itself seems earlier to me, from a time when they were still...
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