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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4480600, member: 5833"]Everything in the 1st & 3rd pix is ROTM. The <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/three-graces" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/three-graces" rel="nofollow">Graces</a> look like they're on Spring Break & strike me as pretty modern.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/day-and-night?start=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/day-and-night?start=1" rel="nofollow">Day & Night</a> is nice but the color worries me. The photo's color fidelity may be poor. If it's fairly accurate, I would steer away from this one as I think it artificial. A pic of the back would help make the determination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think the bacchante/maenad you have starred would make the best gift, 1920s or so. My eye is drawn to the large cameo with the winged figure as being the most unusual, but from what I can see, she is a mish-mash of imagery, looking like Nike/Victoria with the grapes of a bacchante or the flowers sometimes seen with Iris, I can't tell which. You see this in cameos towards the end of their Victorian heyday, when cutters did not adhere as closely to conventions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4480600, member: 5833"]Everything in the 1st & 3rd pix is ROTM. The [URL='https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/three-graces']Graces[/URL] look like they're on Spring Break & strike me as pretty modern. The [URL='https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/day-and-night?start=1']Day & Night[/URL] is nice but the color worries me. The photo's color fidelity may be poor. If it's fairly accurate, I would steer away from this one as I think it artificial. A pic of the back would help make the determination. Think the bacchante/maenad you have starred would make the best gift, 1920s or so. My eye is drawn to the large cameo with the winged figure as being the most unusual, but from what I can see, she is a mish-mash of imagery, looking like Nike/Victoria with the grapes of a bacchante or the flowers sometimes seen with Iris, I can't tell which. You see this in cameos towards the end of their Victorian heyday, when cutters did not adhere as closely to conventions.[/QUOTE]
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