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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 13184472, member: 5833&quot;]Continuing education for the eye.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/French-cameo-pendant-in-ebony-wood-736-c-A831CBDE15?utm_term=cameo&amp;utm_source=alerts&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=keywordalerts&amp;utm_content=448750&amp;utm_term=448750" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/French-cameo-pendant-in-ebony-wood-736-c-A831CBDE15?utm_term=cameo&amp;utm_source=alerts&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=keywordalerts&amp;utm_content=448750&amp;utm_term=448750" rel="nofollow">Auctioneer</a> provides one photo &amp; describes it thusly:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Antique French cameo pendant in ebony wood. Featuring an exquisitely carved white agate depicting a Greek-style lady in profile. Mounted in 18k yellow gold and hallmarked.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]560828[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t speak to the nature of the wood, but it is clearly a cameo cut in one material cleverly mounted - turning the rivets into jewellery - to a background of another.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, does it even seem likely to you that an agate cameo would be tacked to a piece of wood?&nbsp; The fact that this was even done, the thinness plus the slight brown border showing around the figure in many places, tell me this was a shell cameo, probably salvaged from a broken background.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]560829[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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