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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1850256, member: 5833&quot;]Think the signature is yet again our friend &#039;Silz&#039;, Charles Schmoll.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]242894[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>These country scenes are a genre of their own.&nbsp; Often erroneously labeled as <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/religious/rebecca-at-the-well" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/religious/rebecca-at-the-well" rel="nofollow">Rebecca at the Well</a>, they seem to be free form compositions of the cameist&#039;s own devising; I have never seen any 2 exactly alike.&nbsp; They do draw from a vocabulary of standard elements.&nbsp; A gnarled tree seems to be obligatory.&nbsp; Other elements that can be used are: buildings, rustic or ruined; water, a stream (sometimes a little bridge) or pond; animals, goat, dog, geese, ducks, occasionally a horse; people, most often 1 or 2 women, sometimes a man or children.&nbsp; The scene on the first one is the exception that proves the rule; looks like the focus is a man rolling a barrel.&nbsp; Although competent, I have never seen one that met a high standard of workmanship.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know the purpose of the extra piece of metal on the back of the first piece.&nbsp; The frame does not appear in need of bracing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Flora is lovely.&nbsp; Frame seems a bit battered.&nbsp; Clasp may have been replaced; hinge places it in 20th century.&nbsp; All 3 are cut in helmet shell.</p><p><br /></p><p>More, more![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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