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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 304657, member: 5833&quot;]Over the past weekend, some other possibilities for the identity of these figures came to my attention when a contact expressed doubts about the accuracy of the auction description for this cameo:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/chiswick-auctions/catalogue-id-srchis10431/lot-95dddd16-dc8a-41b5-8b1e-a82c0101e76d" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/chiswick-auctions/catalogue-id-srchis10431/lot-95dddd16-dc8a-41b5-8b1e-a82c0101e76d" rel="nofollow">https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/chiswick-auctions/catalogue-id-srchis10431/lot-95dddd16-dc8a-41b5-8b1e-a82c0101e76d</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]99878[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The auction house has high hopes for it based on the histories of 2 others, one of which fetched a whopping amount at Christie&#039;s in 2004, although I do not know if it did as well at Sotheby&#039;s 10 years later:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?hdnSaleID=18698&amp;LN=63&amp;intsaleid=18698&amp;sid=1bb6d40b-2765-40ba-bf5d-c76ac3732d78" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?hdnSaleID=18698&amp;LN=63&amp;intsaleid=18698&amp;sid=1bb6d40b-2765-40ba-bf5d-c76ac3732d78" rel="nofollow">http://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?hdnSaleID=18698&amp;LN=63&amp;intsaleid=18698&amp;sid=1bb6d40b-2765-40ba-bf5d-c76ac3732d78</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/arts-islamic-world-l14220/lot.126.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/arts-islamic-world-l14220/lot.126.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/arts-islamic-world-l14220/lot.126.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]99879[/ATTACH] </p><p>The other was also auctioned by Sotheby&#039;s:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.sothebys.com/es/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.123.html/2012/an-eye-for-opulence-art-of-the-ottoman-empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sothebys.com/es/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.123.html/2012/an-eye-for-opulence-art-of-the-ottoman-empire" rel="nofollow">http://www.sothebys.com/es/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.123.html/2012/an-eye-for-opulence-art-of-the-ottoman-empire</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]99883[/ATTACH] </p><p>Hayreddin Barbarossa is the favored candidate for all 3 cameos: [ATTACH]99882[/ATTACH]&nbsp; and the one that did so fabulously well at Christie&#039;s is a pretty good fit.&nbsp; As an alternative for their other one, Sotheby&#039;s suggested Muhiddin Piri Reis (there are multiple ways of transliterating &amp; punctuating this name): [ATTACH]99884[/ATTACH] </p><p>Guess everyone finds a pirate more alluring than a navigator/cartographer, so of course the latest one is being represented as Barbarossa.</p><p><br /></p><p>All three have been described as 16th century agate.&nbsp; I have a very different opinion as to materials used and age, so am very glad I did not pay anywhere near as much - by orders of magnitude - for my turbanned guy![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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