Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

Thanks for the link... Interesting information!

 

@bluumz @Figtree3 I owe Hadrien a note. Will tell him you enjoyed. Think somewhere in it he mentions how appalled he is by things a friend shows him from eBay. Guessing that would be me. On the other hand, when I first knew him, he pooh-poohed anything later than high neoclassical and anything other than stone. I have managed to corrupt him. He still prefers Renaissance & earlier, ideally lavishly set with interesting provenance, but does now sometimes pay attention to 19th century & even bought a signed shell one (to sell) at my urging. He has a special interest in gems by Saint-Gaudens. It took a lot of delicate handling of a schizzy seller, but hooked him up with a cameo by Lebrethon, S-G's second teacher found, yes, on eBay.

 

Here is another I’ve added to my assortment:
Is this depiction one of Demeter? That’s my guess because it looks like wheat is around her.

 

Nice one!

I would guess she is Demeter, but will wait for @Bronwen to say for sure.

 

Beautiful, @BMRT !

On a totally different note, here is one sick puppy.. she's not mine, I've found it while rummaging for cameos on the web..

 

A rather exuberant Ceres/Demeter it is:

https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/olympian-gods/ceres-demeter

Pose is similar to this rather exuberant Psyche:



Wheat & Wings apoppin'!

 

You have to wonder if someone went at it with scouring powder, poor thing.

 

@Bronwen this is wonderful. Thankyou for posting. I love the dog being petted.

 

It's a favorite of mine too. All allegorical: passionate love; faithful love; the love that got away.

 

Saw this up at a local auction house. Sorry only photo there is. Is this worth going to look at as it's broken?

 

Deliberating it with myself, the conclusion is, probably not. But depends on how big a deal it is to go there, what you would have to give up doing instead, how much they expect to get, whether there is anything else among that stuff that appeals to you (I'd want to know more about the box itself). The other cameo is uninteresting. This one is quite good. Too bad someone probably damaged it by removing it from a gold mount. Unless it is signed, & by a recognized name, it is probably not worth the investment of time & attention all by itself. And you can't know without taking a direct look at the back. I only very, very rarely buy a cameo that is part of a lot of otherwise unwanted stuff. I have to really want it, & it has to be really cheap.

That doesn't make your decision, but those are the things you have to consider, if you haven't already. Also, for you? Or resale? If latter, doubt it would be a good buy.

 

For me. I only sell stuff I don't like and have a little (not so little) collection of stuff other people don't look at as it's not of monetary value. I love researching the history even if broken and damaged!.
I may pop down and look to see if it's signed. It's estimate 60-80 so there would need to be some other bits in there to cover it. Thanks for your input. Very much appreciated

 

I have one quite like it that I love a lot. The cameo is similarly broken, but someone had a custom setting made for it that covers the back & follows the irregular contour of the edge.

 

I would probably go just because there are a number of pieces that look interesting to me.

I wonder what @Ownedbybear thinks of the other stuffs.

 

There are some nice bits in that box. It would depend on the estimate and what other buyers typically do. If jewelry is hotly contested, I'd probably let someone else have it. If it goes begging I might have a go.

 

Not mine, but here's one you cameo lovers might want:
https://beautyblingjewelry.tumblr.c...ca-1880-1890-cora-fashion-love-upright-vacuum

 

I could never pull this off but attention grabbing and note worthy for sure.

 

I've worn crazier, but not cameos.

 

Upper Left & Bottom left.....my guess!

 

Would like it better with fewer & better cut cameos. There are 19 of them (visible), none all that spectacular. Undeniably blingy.