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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KikoBlueEyes, post: 3044640, member: 8363&quot;][USER=5833]@Bronwen[/USER] suggested I post this scene on a cameo I recently purchased to garner a broader range of input about the imagery than it got on her Cameo: Show &amp; Tell or Ask &amp; Answer Thread <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/page-206#post-3044624" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/page-206#post-3044624">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/page-206#post-3044624</a>.</p><p>Bronwen provided a great deal of information including: &quot;Very nicely done in helmet shell.&quot; . . . &quot;It dates to what I am starting to think of as the Italian Cameo Revival. During the Victorian era demand for cameos became so great that anyone &amp; everyone was making shell cameos &amp; quality fell off. And then there was a short period, seems to have started in the 1920s &amp; lasted...? when cameos with a modern sensibility flourished. Giovanni Noto is one name we have from that period. This is in a similar style. Noto signed his work, but this cutter was probably in his orbit.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Bronwen also commented that the scene is reminiscent of those portraying an Egyptian Pharaoh being entertained by a dancing girl with males playing guitars, lyres and harps.&nbsp; The question arises who is the armed man with the stick observing the bare breasted dancer while the pharaoh sits idly in the background being fanned.&nbsp; Bronwen suggested&nbsp; &quot;Either there is a painting out there that looks like this or there is a lot of artistic license at work. There are so many literary &amp; historical sources of imagery that I do not know. Maybe we should put the cameo in a separate thread with the title &#039;What is this scene?&#039; &amp; submit it for the collective Antiquers brain to work on.&quot;&nbsp; So please look and tell us what you think.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]290897[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]290898[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]290899[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]290900[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]290901[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]290902[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]290903[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]290904[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]290905[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]290906[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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