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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 510578, member: 5833&quot;]Not off topic at all &amp; thanks for showing her to us.&nbsp; My friend who deals in coins &amp; engraved gems was able to establish the authenticity of a gem with the characteristic LAVR MED engraved into the front because there is a contemporary portrait in which the sitter is wearing the cameo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wish I had had enough time to really study them, but when the Met had an exhibition of Vigée-Lebrun&#039;s work, many of her subjects were wearing cameos, including her husband, in a ring.&nbsp; She was mostly painting the Napoleonic court.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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