Featured CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

Agreed. That signature on Menelaus looks fake to me. I bet the buyer would be mad if he/she knew.

 

@Bronwen. More for your cameo board, this time ivory or bone ones from my collection.

 

The Louvre has been raising funds to reunite a cameo lid to the agate box it originally topped. They have the box, but the lid had become separated from it at the time of the French Revolution. They have raised the necessary funds, so the piece will be restored. The cameo and cup were made by the Miseroni family circa 1600.

https://www.tousmecenes.fr/en/

 

Thank you for posting this! It is absolutely stunning. I can't even imagine owning something so beautiful.

 

Quite a piece! Leda & the Swan, obviously. That swan looks very determined!

I don't think anything beats the products of the Miseroni workshop. Masnago also used stones in an outstanding way. From way back, see:

CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer

 

So far as affording stuff like this is concerned, it was never available to anyone other than the super rich.

 

We can always dream

 

No, did not see. No longer prowl the listings to the extent I once did; when I was ill did not look at all. Even when being assiduous about it, don't look at etsy. Search too rudimentary & time consuming & so many things that are on etsy are also on eBay.

Not ignoring all the portraits you have so kindly shared with us. Just need to summon up the stamina to work my way through - so much info there!

 

moved to signature thread

 

Glad you are better now! I thought you may have seen them because the seller has 3 of them, and one was already on your board. I can keep posting pics for your boards as I find them. Unfortunately, none have a signature, so we can't know who carved these handsome portraits. I thought maybe Zoellner, but it could be someone else just as easily.

 

Here is a cameo for sale on Ruby Lane with a very good picture of Mouhe's signature. The cameo carving is not the best and I suspect the color is off because the frame is clearly gold in another shot.

 

(Just sharing something amusing found on the internet.)
A contemporary cameo by Aniello Pernice, titled Mona Lisa with Cat

 

That's hilarious! Here's a funny one:

 

Here's one from my files, not one of mine:



That's an unusually exuberant 'M'; in most instances it is closer to being lower case.



Did we ever figure out whether there was more than 1 of them?

 

Ready to bust a gut. Do the cat's eyes also follow you around?

I bought one of his pieces because it adhered so well to earlier standards. Think he had it listed as Aurora. When I wrote to point out it is Phaeton, he said he knew. Guess he thought Aurora would be more attractive & better known to potential buyers.

 

Too funny also. Have not seen this before. Notice that Cupid & the lioness are being chased by one of Cupid's arrows. (By the tail.) Cupid & his archery were feared on Olympus because they could make you do crazy things & C loved to create mischief.

 

The cat is saying "HELP". (LOL) Poor cat!

 

The cupid cameo came up for auction about 6 weeks ago. It sold for $500, so it appealed to lots of buyers.

 

If it was my daughter's cat, then one front paw would be planted firmly in Mona Lisa's cheek while a back paw would be against her arm and the cat would be stiff as a board.

 

I don't think so.