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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 8077002, member: 5833&quot;]In the Tassie impressions, there is a whole section of &quot;Heads of Ladies, with the hair dressed in Greek or Roman fancy&quot;.&nbsp; Subcategories are &quot;Ditto, with frontlets.&quot;&nbsp; (The French is &quot;<i>dito, avec des bandeaux frontal</i>&quot;.&nbsp; Then &quot; Ditto, with diadems or frontlets&quot;.&nbsp; After that come ladies &quot;with diadems or fillets&quot;.&nbsp; My favorites start at impression 14701, &quot;the Fair Laundress.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no doubt cameo cutters copied from other cameos, probably more often than they consulted prints of artwork or impressions of engraved gems, especially in later years of the craze.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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