Featured Market day find - Cameo

I know there is a Cameo Q & A forum, but I couldn't see how to post to it, so if someone wants to move this fire away.
Found this awesome 9ct rose gold Cameo brooch at a flea market today for $2 NZ.
It has a c clasp, so presume it's Victorian or earlier, but if anyone can tell me how to date it and or tell me it's value, that'd be great.
I have heard that you can tell the date by the clothing, but you can only see the neckline which I would guess was earlier than Victorian.
Also, seems she has a Greek nose but not sure if it was copied in later periods.
It's approx 47mm by 37mm.
Look forward to hearing your comments.
Thanks in advance

 

She is lovely Dory.
Can you go back and click edit and full size for your images please as they’ve come up as thumbnails.
@Bronwen is your girl for cameos but what a great find and such a bargain

 

Sorry, yes I thought I had done that but went back when I realised I hadn't. Yes, got to love flea markets and op shops - also got a sterling silver trumpet vase for $5

 

I do it all the time and have to go back and edit. Much easier to see the detail now

 

Photos?

 

Hi, Dory, what a great catch! You can't gauge by her clothing since she is not in the garb of the period when she was made. All that grapevine draped on & around her indicates that she is a maenad/bacchante, one of the female followers of the wine god Dionysus/Bacchus, so she's out of the mythical past.

A better clue to age are the findings, all the bits of hardware on the back. She is solidly Victorian, although I would say later 19th century rather than earlier. She does not have the overlong pin of her predecessors, which may have functioned as a simple form of safety device by running the tip of the pin into the fabric after fixing it in the clasp She does have an attachment loop for a guard chain.

Cut in helmet shell, Naples or Rome, probably set in England.

P.S. - You're always welcome to add cameos to CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer but there are many separate threads like this one. And who can blame you for wanting to show her off? There is sort of a sister thread, in case Cameo Signature Help Needed

 

I'd concur on the back age indicating late 19th.

 

This is my haul from the weekend - 2 markets, a second hand shop and numerous op shops (to my husband's dismay)! The trumpet vase is on the left KSW -
Harrison & Hipwood, Birmingham, 1909. The hair receiver on the right also Birmingham, 1921 but the makers mark is completely illegible. The willow pattern trio is early Hammersley and I can't find a single piece of it on Google, the other trio is Aynsley. The little crystalline glaze ginger jar does not appear to be Oriental as I first thought, it has the signature RR on the base. The Derby Posies lot - not my thing (I collect early Derby) - I'll onsell them to offset the cost of the things I bought to keep

 

Thank you so much Bronwen, your amazing knowledge is gratefully received. All very interesting - so much to learn, so little time! The forum looks very interesting too, I'll post this and my other cameos on there some time.

 

That is a beautiful cameo. What a wonderful find!

 

[Begin fan girl moment] That moment when you think you see an attachment spot for a guard chain and it turns out @Bronwen has the same idea! Squee! [End fan girl moment]

 

I have nothing to add except that I love her!

 

She is lovely Stracci. ☺