The requested companion thread: Cameo Art Help Needed
One of the things cameo lovers do is to try to identify the persons or scenes depicted and further to identify the work of fine art or literature...
Put a veil on it & you've got something. :nailbiting:
I think it is a smaller turtle. I like the specificity of the large one; looks like an actual tortoise.
I was considering that. May just do so as to make the rest of you crazy along with me. :D (We need a cameo emoji.)
Part of the charm of some of my cameos is that someone loved them enough to have them repaired.
I was already liking the little pumpkin shaped pot. I'll have them both, please. :turtle::turtle:
I saw this & wrote to Holly Trusted, with whom I'd had previous contact over the Ronca Psyche/Iris, showing her Nero & asking if they were sure...
Good to have the identifying painting. I see her also IDed as Amphitrite and Marine Venus.
The size & shape of the little beads are so variable that I have to suspect they are actual jet & not 'French jet', i.e., glass. No reason to...
Before I found this place, I posted some things on Collectors Weekly, including Nero....
What a gorgeous piece. Always so surprising when such work isn't signed. The Genius does have Apollo's original lyre, made with a turtle shell....
My feeling from the beginning has been that it was tacked down as an applique & then removed from a dress as being too nice to be discarded & kept...
Bell pull?
I had not seen this one before. Wonder where it was cut? And if Italy, how did cutter come to know that image? Isn't it immensely satisfying...
Yeah, right: Medium Bone Est: $500 - $750 Sold: $1,850
Not fasces?
I can't help but think the owner vowed never to take it off, for sentimental reasons that outweighed the condition of the cameo.
What is hard on a cameo is easy going for metal. Stracci is right. Someone never took this off. Water & soap & all the little knocks rings are...
Crewel embroidery & tole painting were fads in the early 70s, in there with latch hooking.
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