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Message:: [QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 11551665, member: 5833"]I'm still curious how they escape the authentication requirement. They do say the mount is "Victorian period", so I would count that as saying 19th century.  My own take, with only photos to go by & without being able to handle the piece, is that it is a hardstone cameo on which the figure has not been polished to the same degree as the background, also maybe dyed, as the beige color on the dark sard is unusual. It does not look at all Renaissance to me & most certainly not "pre-Renaissance", i.e., Medieval.  I think the cameo & mount are contemporaneous. The text strikes me as having been written by someone whose first language is not English.[/QUOTE]