There is a German antique jewellery business that lists on eBay & clearly uses a translation program for their English descriptions, without...
Definitely conch shell: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/materials-guide?start=1 These ladies decked out in roses are usually just...
I nearly commented on this up front; it is a typical sun symbol. If they are launching/beaching a canoe, it has a very angular prow (if that word...
The 'cameo of a gentleman in profile' is an intaglio of Socrates.
Only if you want her completely monochromatic. In my experience, the paint is water soluble.
Is there anything on the bottom of the stand?
Something to conjure with: [ATTACH]
Yes, Czech glass cameo. They were sold as jewellery components, so mount was probably made elsewhere. The underlying glass seems often to have...
Think the chi rho hypothesis was mention in one or more of the articles in links. Some of them remind me of weather vanes.
I considered that, also Song of Hiawatha, which got me to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanabozho#/media/File:Manabozhointheflood.png...
The bare bones designs seem to be made up of an assortment of crosses, which ties in with invoking a blessing on the venture & protection on the...
Wonder whether this wasn't originally a book illustration.
A lovely Diana, wearing a nebris, a deer or fawn skin, although artists seem to have made these rather shaggy, perhaps so we'd know for sure it...
If the rings for hanging them are embedded into the material, as they look to me to be, molded resin of some sort.
This one is very like yours, except in citrine:...
He's holding a gold bracelet behind his back & has a jewelley casket at his feet, so it may not only be that she just really likes camels.
When a symbol is so successful, used by so many, in so many places, for so many purposes, for centuries, you can bet it has a lot of flexibility...
The most common cameo version is based on a painting by Vernet. [ATTACH]
As everyone has already said, it's a fob seal, never engraved. If the gold is 15ct, it is probably rock crystal. A lovely thing, she says,...
Are you sure it's Bluto & not the Mouth of Sauron?!
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