Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

I was following this lot because I hadn't ever seen a well carved cameo in tiger's eye. I also really liked the setting. It may be signed underneath the pin stem, but I couldn't make it out. It sold today well above the estimate of E400-E600 for an eye-popping E6800 plus premium.

https://uk.drouot.com/l/20961959-?actionParam=recherche

 

She's spectacular. If the gemstones are real, I can see why she hammered where she did. Surprised Drouot estimated her so low.

I only have a couple in tiger eye. One is this massive Hercules:



But he's so flat compared to that menacing Medusa.

 

Thank you, I love her!
Got her from EBay France February 26th! 36€ + 4€ shipping, happy find!!!

 

I actually did think that we had seen the Louet name before, then somehow managed not to find it in a search of the site, only Jouet in connection with something else, so concluded my memory was wrong. But @kyratango has found it in the Signatures thread, a whole family's worth.

 

True! Must credit @PepperAnna for finding it in the signatures thread, (I forgot about seeing!)

 

Wow! A great find. Congrats!

 

Among today's suggestions on things I would perhaps like to buy came this auction lot:

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...aign=auction-alert&utm_content=lot-image-link

Victorian cameo and coral three strand bracelet





Interesting that they just said 'cameo' without representing it as being the same material as the - wrongly identified - beads. Their estimate of 80 - 120 GBP suggests they know it's not coral.

Key words: conch coral cameo beads

 

Traumatic rhinoplasty too, from the looks of it.

 

For years I wanted a nice but cheap broken cameo to have a kyratisation try...
I just won this one, so much details on the 4cm piece!
Signed on back...
Lots of dirt...
The pics are from the listing, I enhanced them for better view, of course new pics will be posted upon arrival

 

It will be interesting to see what you can do with this one!

 

I promise I’ll post the result, bad or good

 

Yup. Could still be attractive with a wash & brush.

 

What in the world happened to that poor thing?! Have never seen one splitting in quite that way. Well, you do like a challenge. Aluminum foil is not going to fix this one, except maybe for making a form to preserve the overall curvature. Good luck.

 

Aarrgghh!

https://usantiqueshows.com/antiques...ource=email&utm_medium=mc&utm_campaign=410696



MW: This Victorian shell cameo brooch depicts the goddesses Tykhe and Nemesis in yellow gold. An oval shell cameo intricately carved with the classical profiles of two goddesses with curling ringlets, one with a radiating halo whilst the other is veiled, above them the crescent moon shines and in front of them a dove with wings spread clutching a cornucopia, all to a decorative domed border featuring rope twists and scalloped details, fitted to the reverse with a hinged pin and secure C-scroll closure.

https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/day-and-night

 

Sheesh!

 

Open mouth insert foot. At least the carving is good, unless this is a brown version of those blue things.

 

Gosh, even I knew they were Day and Night! Makes you question the level of knowledge of their "experts".

 

Tykhe, usually spelled Tyche, was Fortuna to the Romans; there is a lot of crossover between these two & Cybele. A cornucopia is one of her attributes.



I love Nemesis & think of her as the Goddess of Comeuppance.

 

Or the Goddess of Karma coming home to roost? I like her already.