Suggest you restrict your search to 'jet mountain lion fetish'. No telling what will be presented for your consideration if you're too general....
Google Image Search did a phenomenally bad job with the photo of the back.
If this is not a figure from history or literature, another allegorical figure it might be, in addition to Despair, is Sorrow, although I admit...
Maybe jet. A mountain lion with a silver heart line. Personally I try to reserve 'fetish' for items that are actually being used in that...
These senoritas are a 1950s type. Yours is meant to look like the same materials as used in Simona's brooch but as far as I can see all man made....
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I don't. It's the sculpture that is neo-classical. I was responding to: It has been my observation that cameo cutters are not at the...
Puts me in mind of Carpeaux's Ugolino & His Sons, but it's not. Does the figure have a face? Certainly a study in musculature.
BTW, with the combination of ivory & tortoiseshell, suspect the piece is French.
Didn't realize Perseus was transgender. :joyful: Actually, happen to know that one of our members just bought a Perseus cameo that is very...
I think it is the more probable explanation but the other can't be ruled out; we don't know the cutter's intent. However, while I have...
@Simona Buhus A little more investment advice. It's fine to buy items like this if they appeal to you and are very inexpensive. Do not buy them...
@Simona Buhus You have written elsewhere that you have begun buying jewellery as an investment. I would not advise putting too much money in...
This says glass to me, rather than quartz or white topaz.
She's not wearing a necklace, is she? Those beads are hanging from her ears, looks like.
I know. I just wanted to show that the work of his on the market is also highly variable. :)
Could be, no way to know for certain. Carver may also have been influenced in his strokes by the natural grain of the material. Think we can...
An assemblage of colored glass parts automatically made me think Murano, but the base also caught my attention as something unusual, although I...
A Deco sensibility? Or the lack of the skill/effort to do the more subtle curves? [ATTACH] My dating of the cameo is based on the findings &...
The synopsis does not mention that the winged horse Pegasus, plus another beast called Chrysaor, sprang from the neck of the decapitated Gorgon....
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