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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 376693, member: 5833&quot;]She&#039;s lovely, but another lovely one will come along at a price you like better.&nbsp; Whole helmet shells quickly start to take up a lot of space.&nbsp; Whether for resale or your own home decor, you may be better off with something a bit more compact.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are so many things I would like to know about cameos that I would probably have to go back in time as a fly on the wall to find out.&nbsp; Between things that were thought too obvious or inconsequential for anyone to write down, or were considered secrets of the trade &amp; not written down, I do a lot of conjecturing.&nbsp; These pretty ladies wearing hoop earrings who are still recognizable as classical figures must all date to around the same time, guessing art nouveau, but early enough that the old conventions had not yet been abandoned.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your girl, draped in grape vine is a bacchante/maenad.&nbsp; Here are her sisters Diana and Flora:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]129846[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]129847[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>They are both good sized pieces; Diana is in a micromosaic brass easel frame &amp; sits on my desk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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