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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4556480, member: 5833&quot;]Today&#039;s jewellers, the overwhelming majority of them, know sh*t about cameos &amp; just judge worth by the setting.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>11111111111111111111111111114 [This is Pontiac&#039;s comment.]&nbsp; Mine is that it looks to me like the earlier work from Scognamiglio &amp; cutters who learned from Giovanni Noto.&nbsp; If you look at their current work you can see how it has become more cartoonish.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cascosrl.it/en.about_us.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cascosrl.it/en.about_us.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.cascosrl.it/en.about_us.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The convention had been that placing a figure in clouds like this indicated that they were on Mt. Olympus.&nbsp; This lady is tripping the light fantastic (or maybe just tripping) without belonging to the pantheon.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Probably half pearls.&nbsp; If glue was involved in holding them in place, I can easily imagine some of them losing their grip.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think the piece has taken any real bashing.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Very slim, since there is no uniformity to the shapes, which makes it difficult to substitute one for another in the same bezel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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