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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 498919, member: 5833&quot;]If you go back to page one of this saga, post #13, I expatiate on the qualities I &amp; most people who are serious about cameos look for.&nbsp; Quality of carving is definitely top of the bill: basically, you&#039;re acquiring a little relief sculpture when you buy a cameo.</p><p><br /></p><p>In case no one had noticed, my own tastes are somewhat eccentric &amp; I would rather have a good example of an unusual subject in a humble mount or not set at all than a well cut cameo in a lavish setting if the subject is humdrum.&nbsp; It was subjects that drew me to cameos in the first place.&nbsp; Materials also interest me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Newest member of my cameo family is this guy:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]164255[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]164256[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The setting is brass/pinchbeck, with an iron replacement pin stem, which you can see has not done well with time &amp; humidity, &amp; he&#039;s pretty small, about 15mm (cameo alone).&nbsp; But he&#039;s a specimen of a type of cameo I have come to recognize is distinctive from other shell cameos in both material &amp; subject matter.&nbsp; They are cut from some species of clam or other bivalve shell, &amp; nearly all I have ever seen feature men that were probably seen as Moors or blackamoors in their day, the early 19th century.&nbsp; I showed one of his fellows in post #14 on a thread started by kyratango:</p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameo-for-bronwen-opinion.21492/#post-290366" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameo-for-bronwen-opinion.21492/#post-290366">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameo-for-bronwen-opinion.21492/#post-290366</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I like him better than the insipid cameos I sometimes see that are cut in amethyst or citrine &amp; housed in fancy surrounds.&nbsp; Some very high end operations haven&#039;t a clue:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.peterszuhay.com/ads/cameo-of-st-paul/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.peterszuhay.com/ads/cameo-of-st-paul/" rel="nofollow">https://www.peterszuhay.com/ads/cameo-of-st-paul/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21557/lot/40/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21557/lot/40/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21557/lot/40/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.sothebys.com/es/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.123.html/2012/an-eye-for-opulence-art-of-the-ottoman-empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sothebys.com/es/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.123.html/2012/an-eye-for-opulence-art-of-the-ottoman-empire" rel="nofollow">http://www.sothebys.com/es/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.123.html/2012/an-eye-for-opulence-art-of-the-ottoman-empire</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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