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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4532222, member: 5833&quot;]Helmet shell, hand carved, Italian.&nbsp; The figure is from a set of 12 nymphs, known as the Hours of the Day &amp; Night of Raphael.&nbsp; It is generally agreed they are not by Raphael.&nbsp; Their origin is murky, &amp; I have come to believe them to have been devised by Michelangelo Maestri.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is a sketchy version, reversed, of the Second Hour of the Day:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://cameotimes.com/images/Hours/Day2BW.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Brooklyn Museum has a print in their collections:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/26603" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/26603" rel="nofollow">https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/26603</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Hours in poses like this, with one or both arms raised, are not seen as often as some of the more compact compositions, probably because they don&#039;t fit well into the standard cameo oval.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is very typical in quality.&nbsp; You only occasionally see one with more detail.&nbsp; This rather exuberant one is from my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://cameotimes.com/images/Hours/Day2/Day2A.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The sculptor Claude Michel (&#039;Clodion&#039;) passed this one off as his own work.&nbsp; It was originally known as the Allegory of Astronomy, then, because another of his knockoffs was known as Day, this one became Night.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://cameotimes.com/images/Hours/ClodionLaNuit.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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