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Agree, a family of four. Stone looks like something from the serpentine family.
I like the theatrical mask dangles on this one better; too bad it doesn't preserve the anguiped lady at the bottom of Kard's. But what I really...
I have a fondness for rescued cameos, ones that are damaged but that someone loved enough to have a jeweller craft a setting to accommodate their...
That stuff sticking up out of the crown is hair. Cutter must really have been into beads, to give her that triple strand necklace & to show even...
In this case, I like the cars better than the cameos. Nice work. :)
I did search their sold listings, of which there are many, but either the calendar wasn't sold or transaction was too long ago to be picked up...
When the cats are insisting on typing along with me, I get a bit frenetic. Now they've had their supper & are allowing me some peace. The...
When you first start looking beyond cameos like 'Ponytail Girl', something like this looks pretty spiffy. When you get in deeper, you realize...
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What you get when cameo cutters lost touch with neoclassical traditions:
Haven't we been here before?
This is probably the case. Patent date puts a floor under the age, but doubt this style made it very far into the 20th century. Also doubt any...
Trying to come up with the right term. 'Miser's purses' are different, & reticules all seem to have draw strings. 'Beaded stocking purse' was...
I saw a bat right off too. Some of the pieces I would just call free-form, but OP is brutalist in sensibility, if not time period.
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Agree; think the date letter is E. However, think only these marked rings are from Egypt, not the main part of the bracelets. Germany made...
They are cool, smooth & hard, but not quite as cool as stone sitting in the same room & clunk against the teeth while the stone clinks, i.e., by...
The mark on the clasp[edit: or not the spring ring, the other side? And also marked 935?] looks like the Egyptian 800 fineness mark & the N date...
The do look rather like Egyptian stylized papyrus or lotus blossoms. Closer to papyrus, I think, which is more fan-shaped than lotus.
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