Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 3391858, member: 5833&quot;]<img src="https://www.antiquers.com/media/l-rosi.8071/full?d=1610248381" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/media/luigi-rosi.8069/full?d=1610248381" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=18104]@BellaSarah[/USER] Welcome to Antiquers.com&nbsp; What a lovely thing to find in a box of &#039;Old Stuff&#039;.&nbsp; Luigi Rosi was active at that address in the 1860s - 1880s (86 is the street number, not the year), so the cameo is definitely old stuff.&nbsp; It is a &#039;hardstone&#039;, <i>pietra dura</i>, cameo, which is to say it is agate.&nbsp; The subject is indeed the nymph <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/clytie" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/clytie" rel="nofollow">Clytie</a>, who seems to have been a favorite of his.&nbsp; The ones you saw earlier in the thread belong to me:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]301585[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I so envy your having the original box, with the dealer&#039;s notations, even though we can&#039;t decipher them.&nbsp; Very cool.&nbsp; BTW, great photos.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in