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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4399771, member: 5833&quot;]Before I found this place, I posted some things on Collectors Weekly, including Nero.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/224523-one-mystery-solved" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/224523-one-mystery-solved" rel="nofollow">https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/224523-one-mystery-solved</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, since that post was made, the SKD has taken down their statuette of the Emperor Domitian &amp; the links are dead.&nbsp; It was after stumbling into this photo from works that were in a <a href="http://stonecarving.ru/five-centuries-of-three-dimensional-mosaic.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://stonecarving.ru/five-centuries-of-three-dimensional-mosaic.html" rel="nofollow">special exhibition of lapidary work</a> that I got the tip off that what I had been thinking of as The Barbarian might be a Caesar.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]371932[/ATTACH] </p><p>Emperor Domitian by Johann Bernhard Schwarze(n)burger</p><p><br /></p><p>I had searched &amp; searched for any other red on black cameos, finding very few, none of them Victorian.&nbsp; Also not having any luck searching for Attila, etc.&nbsp; Once I started looking at Roman emperors I found him very quickly.&nbsp; The head on Domitian is more like my Nero than anything else I have ever found.&nbsp; I have only the one full length photo, so the detail pic is all pixellated.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]371933[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously I can&#039;t say with any certainty that Nero is the work of the Schwarzeburger family, but engraved gems by German masters seem to have been overlooked almost entirely by the glyptics world.&nbsp; There must still be many out there, unidentified, misattributed.&nbsp; This is all the back of Nero has to tell:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]371945[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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