My assumption is that it is a man's pinkie ring, which accounts for how it got so knocked around. You could see it that way, as War & Love,...
Opinions/preferences on this vary, so hopefully some of our other collectors (@PepperAnna @mirana ) will share their practices too. Seems as...
Hi, Simona. Good to have you back. Yes, cameo is stone & I think it is probably all one piece, although I can see why Holly would think glue was...
The construction is the easiest, fastest, cheapest possible. I would hazard it was strung in China.
Well at least they're flat crowned herbivore teeth, not little pointy ones. I think it's just the cutter showing off with some gratuitous detail.
Is it uranium glass?
The animals I think I can identify relate more to Egypt.
Bento box?
These little insulators are often ivory.
I changed a couple of letters & got this slightly different version: Ein herk, das eisengleich zum Leiden, hast ben den Trubfass Stichenstill,...
From what is now long ago in this thread, see the link in this post & in the one following: CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer
He works the lathe by foot.
Sort of a commedia dell'arte flapper, isn't she.
I like your interpretation. Could be. I think it's in the vein of images of putti engaging in grownup pursuits, which sometimes use small-C...
Do I remember correctly that the shepherdess cameo is Masnago? Is the pdf just a digital copy of the Met Bulletin for Cameo Appearances, a...
Love this. And really want that cabinet with all the shallow drawers. Tried to work out the writing but probably made errors in transliterating...
Agree with what has already been said. I'm confident Hera is shell. Doubt it would have been difficult when these were cut to find a 2cm segment...
Looking at her adornments, she's coming from wealth to have all those pearls, although they don't look so fine as you see in portraits of...
They were in existence at least as far back as the Renaissance, as the one Mirana's link leads us to. Trying to recall if I've seen any that were...
The little fisher person is Psyche.
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