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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 3436869, member: 5833"]In the order the photos are presented:</p><p><br /></p><p>Fridolina has already explained the elements of the <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/hebe-and-eagle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/hebe-and-eagle" rel="nofollow">Hebe</a> cameo perfectly.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second figure is a bacchante/maenad wreathed in grape vine.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is likely enough that they were each set in brass/pinchbeck, which may have been gold washed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The third has a pretty frame that looks like brass to me too. I don't think the cameo came out quite as the cutter would have liked & it's rather scrambled. I believe the instrument intended was a little harp, & that the figure was meant to be an Erato type of composition. I have no idea what is going on on the top of the head. Hair, wings, roses? As you have noticed, the garment is suited to a male figure. Could be meant as Apollo with his kithara, the hair in a knot as on the Apollo Belvedere.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]302882[/ATTACH] (not mine)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 3436869, member: 5833"]In the order the photos are presented: Fridolina has already explained the elements of the [URL='https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/hebe-and-eagle']Hebe[/URL] cameo perfectly. The second figure is a bacchante/maenad wreathed in grape vine. It is likely enough that they were each set in brass/pinchbeck, which may have been gold washed. The third has a pretty frame that looks like brass to me too. I don't think the cameo came out quite as the cutter would have liked & it's rather scrambled. I believe the instrument intended was a little harp, & that the figure was meant to be an Erato type of composition. I have no idea what is going on on the top of the head. Hair, wings, roses? As you have noticed, the garment is suited to a male figure. Could be meant as Apollo with his kithara, the hair in a knot as on the Apollo Belvedere. [ATTACH=full]302882[/ATTACH] (not mine)[/QUOTE]
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