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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 11175735, member: 5833&quot;]Mirana has already passed on much of what I would have said if I had seen this post sooner.&nbsp; Definitely &#039;hardstone&#039; (from pietra dura), and dyed.&nbsp; This red/lavender/white combo seems to have been popular late 19th/early 20th century.&nbsp; I suspect that in stone the lavender layer is more the effect of the red showing through than a true color layer, but this is just my surmise.&nbsp; By this time the material being used was banded chalcedony from South America that has very little natural color.&nbsp; However, the different density of the layers leads to different degrees of color uptake.&nbsp; A stone cameo with a very red or very black layer has almost certainly been treated.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mount on yours almost hides it, but in tri-color stone like this the shift from red to lavender is gradual &amp; the layers may not be an even thickness.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]538019[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The French made some lovely cameos reproducing these colors, except in glass, where the layers are discrete &amp; the lavender is clearly a separate layer.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]538021[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]538022[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]538023[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the lady, she also began to appear late 19th/early 20th.&nbsp; Personally, I refer to them as noblewomen.&nbsp; They do not seem to be anyone in particular; their adornments are variable.&nbsp; The flower necklace on yours is something I have not seen before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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