Cameo Signature Help Needed

well done @Jivvy!!

 

Just something I ran into now that Jivvy has set me on a new research avenue. It's the catalogue for a Paris exposition devoted to things for & by women:

http://188.165.186.89/artsdeco/images/centredoc/Multimedias/doc-artnouveau-artdeco/Catalogues de salon-expositions/Expositions MAD/1892-exposition-art-de-la-femme.pdf

It's in French, of course, but you don't need to know much to have a good time with it. Expect @kyratango will have the best time. Maybe she will tell us what 'bimbeloterie' is.

 

Thanks for the link, Bronwen.
Bookmarked it!
Bimbeloterie.... trinkets !

 

What every woman needs. Of course we know some men need them too.

 

Great work, @Jivvy !

 

There are a number of entries to look at in this book (including scrolling back a page from where this link lands you), but I've highlighted my favorite.

Of course, I have no idea what time period we're supposed to be looking at.

And I know he's listed as "gem engraver" and we seem to be looking at shell in the provided images.

But there were several Mocchi medalists listed, so.

https://books.google.com/books?id=K...051#v=onepage&q=Lorenzo Ciglia Mocchi&f=false

 

Although... I suspect you would have already looked at this Stefano Mocchi as he appears to be in the "Big Book" of medallists.

 

I have. They're all much too early. My guy is probably from the first 2/3 of the 19th century. But it was seeing that name when I was trying to figure out the signature on the cameos that influenced my reading of it; at least it was a real name.

 

That "real name" thing is compelling.

 

Has to be pronounceable & to make phonetic sense in some language. Helps to find someone, anyone who has the name you think you see, the way you & I checked on Schmoll & Schmolz.

 

For anyone still playing, this is back to the original question. I think the circled letters are plausible as "vi" (minus the dot over the "i", I know).

 

I'm still playing, but think you've blown everyone else off the court. It is plausible & lack of a dot is not a problem. Still left with the question of what pronounceable combination of letters comes immediately before & after that?

 

Haven't come up with anything workable as of yet, but the possibility of that "r" being an "i" opens up some avenues and I thought I should share -- in case it sparks just the right note with someone else.

 

The top half of the following image is what I saw as problematic... the bottom half a possible solution.

 

In German, is cameo "miniatur" "kamee" or something else?

 

Kamee.

 

The cameo I first thought was Michelini, then reassessed as probably 'Mocchi', has turned out to be my second Reverchon:



On my other Reverchon cameo, the signature is positioned so the R is scratched into a rough area of shell & barely visible. Between the 2 of them, I can put together how the whole name looks. The other one has 'graveur' below the name. Here it looks like he only got as far as the 'g.'

 

Very nice one!

 

@Jivvy

 

Thank you, @Bronwen ... sorting out L avet/L bonnet/ B bonnet is proving interesting.

Currently I have the best track on L bonet. But they are all a bit slippery.

I suspect foul play in the drawing room with a candlestick, but it's more likely mistranscribed records that I haven't yet found.