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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2390809, member: 5833&quot;]New girl is here &amp; had a scrub to remove a bit of brown gunk.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]262758[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>She is marked on the back Bezalel/Jerusalem.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]262759[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="http://www.bezalel.ac.il/en/about/landmarks/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bezalel.ac.il/en/about/landmarks/" rel="nofollow">Bezalel Schoo</a>l (now Academy) of Arts and Crafts, was established in 1906.&nbsp; Current work strikes me as more art and less craft than in the earlier days, when they produced items used in Jewish religious practice as well as other items decorated with Jewish themes.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can find other examples of <a href="https://www.kestenbaum.net/auction/lot/auction-61/061-440/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kestenbaum.net/auction/lot/auction-61/061-440/" rel="nofollow">cameos with this same image</a>.&nbsp; The design is unusual among Bezalel cameos in that it is not labeled as being a particular figure; much Bezalel jewellery and the majority of cameos feature Ruth, Rachel, Rebekah, Judith, Jael, Shulamit or Esther.&nbsp; Typically the name in Hebrew is cut on the obverse in cameo.&nbsp; Perhaps this cameo is meant to celebrate Jewish/Israeli Woman rather than a matriarch or heroine.&nbsp; She is also the only design I have seen with an inset embellishment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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