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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 331602, member: 5833"]Dare I say, it's becoming top flight?! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure I've ever seen anything for sale by the first seller that was not priced in the thousands of dollars, so gazillion is pretty close. <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/hebe-and-eagle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/hebe-and-eagle" rel="nofollow">Hebe & the Eagle</a> was an extremely popular subject. She comes along frequently, all along the price scale. This one, as you rightly observe, is excellent (after an intaglio by Giovanni Pichler) but if you love the scene, patience may bring one to you that is right for the price.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second piece looks like a 'commesso', a cameo that uses a mixture of materials. It is difficult to know from the photo whether that is quite what it is. Looks to me more like a shell cameo that has been embellished with enamel. Very pretty & unusual. If she were to sell it, you'd be out another gazillion $.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 331602, member: 5833"]Dare I say, it's becoming top flight?! :joyful: Not sure I've ever seen anything for sale by the first seller that was not priced in the thousands of dollars, so gazillion is pretty close. [URL='https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/hebe-and-eagle']Hebe & the Eagle[/URL] was an extremely popular subject. She comes along frequently, all along the price scale. This one, as you rightly observe, is excellent (after an intaglio by Giovanni Pichler) but if you love the scene, patience may bring one to you that is right for the price. The second piece looks like a 'commesso', a cameo that uses a mixture of materials. It is difficult to know from the photo whether that is quite what it is. Looks to me more like a shell cameo that has been embellished with enamel. Very pretty & unusual. If she were to sell it, you'd be out another gazillion $.[/QUOTE]
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