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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 3012802, member: 5833"]Noses on both male & female mythological figures were straight & strong in the classical & neoclassical periods. During the Victorian era cameo cutters took their inspiration from the art work of those times.</p><p><br /></p><p>The new century bought a shift into depicting imaginary beauties with a look more contemporary to their time. You can see that over the 20th century noses became smaller & more turned up, cute instead of classically beautiful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is new enough to have been made at a time of the new look in noses, but cutter went with an older look, as you say, Greek.</p><p><br /></p><p>The brown on her curls & the orange on her chest are from the next layer of shell. They alternate brown & white.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 3012802, member: 5833"]Noses on both male & female mythological figures were straight & strong in the classical & neoclassical periods. During the Victorian era cameo cutters took their inspiration from the art work of those times. The new century bought a shift into depicting imaginary beauties with a look more contemporary to their time. You can see that over the 20th century noses became smaller & more turned up, cute instead of classically beautiful. Yours is new enough to have been made at a time of the new look in noses, but cutter went with an older look, as you say, Greek. The brown on her curls & the orange on her chest are from the next layer of shell. They alternate brown & white.[/QUOTE]
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