I can only chip in that the scene is the birth of Venus, or just after, when she is standing on the shores of Cyprus at Paphos. Jove is looking...
Did you ever get a message at the e-mail address you used to register with the site asking to confirm it & did you reply? This is what's at the...
My malachite cameo is based on a Thorvaldsen relief. So are all the cameos in this parure: [IMG]...
Photo experiment. Will this one enlarge? [ATTACH] Is that a crack or a pencil mark on the left? There would have been a pencil inside.
This part strikes me as being hand made; the engraving is not at all symmetrical. Maybe those were places it was held in a clamp!
No problem. Hope the info in the link Holly posted will help you get established with the forum. And welcome! :)
Cyrillic?
Definitely not on the bottom & don't think so on the top either. Both places just look like a section of scored line, which stand out among all...
Overture made & reply received: they hadn't noticed it until I pointed it out & say it is so small they can't read, other than they think first...
Love this: Antique 1940s There is undoubtedly an actual tapestry behind the design of OP's piece. Kit maker would have chosen an image out of...
Interesting. Could it be ceramic?
No one loves watermelon tourmaline more than I do, but the outcomes for the two lots is alarming for a cameo collector. I have only one that is...
Wow! Love it. Certainly looks like bottles said to be from that period. To amuse the rest of us until Walter educates us:...
I don't feel entirely satisfied with anything we've suggested. For color, chyrsocolla seems closest. It's really very odd, for color & finish....
I think Holly is not being inconsistent. The stone is travertine, but the trade (jewellery trade) & commonly used (inaccurate) name is Mexican...
I'm starting to crave Dairy Queen!
More probably the shade. They're just gorgeous. Would love to see one lit.
Meanwhile, the lot immediately before went for more than 4 times the high end of its estimate:...
I was meaning to agree with you. Typed & posted my message without seeing Bakers' first. We both agree with you. :)
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