Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

After seeing her in the Finds thread, I had my fingers crossed she would turn out to be signed. Maybe @Jivvy can discern something legible amidst the crosshatching. The work is certainly of a quality to sign with pride.

See @bluumz post #2643 for a reversible setting idea:
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/page-133#post-840398

Someone really took care over breaking her out of the background, even opening space between ribbon ends. Very, very nice.

 

Sadly, nope. Nothin'.

On another note, do you have a name for the woman I call "Diadem Lady"?

In my ongoing quest to find early Headband Girl and Ponytail Girl, I dug out Baubles, Buttons, and Beads: The Heritage of Bohemia by Sibylle Jargstorf -- and found a Diadem Lady labeled as circa 1880 (not the one pictured, this one I snagged from the internet).

 

I have a folder with the individual photos labeled in various ways, some with 'diadem' in the file name. The folder is 'Woman w Pendant', as there seem to be variants in this regard. She appears in this salesman's sample set:



Some others:

 

The one being worn in the last photo appears to have the same gilding as the one in the book that's labeled 1880.

From Baubles, Buttons, and Beads: The Heritage of Bohemia by Sibylle Jargstorf

 

I have the photo labeled as being from Germany.

 

Now we have a Czech headband lady to go with the German hairband lady?

 

I have to go with Diadem Lady and Headband Girl.

Plus, Czech Glass Psyche.

 

My personal name for this one is Bejeweled Lady. Only see her in Vulcanite-type material.


Has that Mucha/deco look.

 

I've never seen that woman before. Guess I've never seen Vulcanite!

 

First day on the job as a cameo carver?

 

I'd be tempted to call the vulcanite ones Trojan Hoard Lady; she looks like she's wearing it.(LOL) The one above ... may also have been the carver's last day.

 

Maybe influenced by Pablo Picasso?

 

I like vulcanite lady... I wonder if she is traditional dress of somewhere, modeled after a piece of art, carver's fancy, or maybe a combination of all...

 

We can only hope. What was in the mind of whoever thought it was worth setting, even if cheaply?

 

Mucha muchacha:

 

This conch shell cameo is coming to live with me soon.
There are no wings on the cap... is it still considered to be a depiction of Mercury/Hermes?
I love the blushing cheek!

 

Awww, this handsome guy will be happy with you Right! He is blushing!
Thinking he looks more like a Napolitan character, with his cap and "scarf".
@Bronwen will know

 

Ooh, I love him! It's too bad more really good cutters seem never to have explored the possibilities of this material.

A little speed research found this:

http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/41161CF0-F711-485C-8761-733A4541C849

This type of cap, a pilos, is an attribute of Odysseus in conventional depictions, but this guy is too youthful looking for the wily guy from Ithaca. That said, it doesn't necessarily mean he has no specific identity. I never got a reply the one time I asked what exactly 'unpublished Tassie' means at the Archive. What I have observed is that they are Tassie impressions they have that are not part of the set that is matched up with the catalogue, that seem to have had descriptions written by undergrads in classics whose job was to describe what they saw, e.g., young man with pilos, not to make a definitive ID, although there are often tentative suggestions, followed by a question mark.

To pursue further, the next step would be to start thinking of who it could be, Paris, Odysseus or STOP THE PRESSES! Had one more thought about whom to add to the list, who would wear a pilos like Odysseus but be younger, & it occurred to me that his son Telemachus might reasonably be indicated that way &, tada!

http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/A0DA01DF-516D-46AE-ADC4-48B386D83370

In this case, 'unpublished' is correct; this impression is not in the catalogue. OK, we can all relax now.

 

@Bronwen, thank you, that's him! And thanks for the name of the pilos/pileus cap, it didn't quite appear to be a phrygian cap since it didn't have a longer bent-over apex.