Men of antiquity freely wore engraved gems of Athena/Minerva and maenads/bacchantes, in all sorts of colors.
I have powerful allies. :)
[ATTACH] @kyratango Do you have any thoughts about how to go about finding this. Foundry mark? Imprimatur? @Sylvie Good job with the new photos.
In better pieces, using a post as well as some glue is the standard way to secure pearls that are not prong set or strung on wire. As I recall,...
Could be a ruby. They do that.
Yes, you explained it well & I think you're right.
I'm still struck by the fact that it's solid ivory. Having a bust made in it seems like such an old fashioned, & lavish, thing to do. The only...
[ATTACH] [IMG] I would say our subject is of the same era & has a lot of similarity but is not Roosevelt. R. has a squarer face; our guy's is...
Yes, Brazilian.
Luciano Senna. https://www.obrasdarte.com/luciano-senna-e-seu-universo-ludico-por-edmundo-cavalcanti/?lang=en
Aniano, I think. Unless that's the name of the series, not the artist. There's an Aniano Martinez who died, age 80 in Miami, 2004.
What is the material visible on the bottom?
I thought I was making it up because that's how jaspers, which are any opaque chalcedony, get named, by their resemblance to something, & I...
That was a very good deal. Shows how most people value cameos by the worth of the setting & not the quality of the workmanship of the cameo itself.
DON'T SPRING THINGS LIKE THAT ON ME! There are enough frightful things around as it is & it's not Halloween yet.
My immediate reaction was also that it illustrates a story. Could be the original art from which prints were made in the book. Pilgrim's...
Definitely not. :) [ATTACH]
I'm tempted to call this one Monet jasper & leave it there. I like the way the stone works with the metals.
Rainbow calsilica? Or am I making that up?
Sort of thing you would have seen at crafts shows here in the US in the 1980s.
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