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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 895414, member: 5833&quot;]Easy question first, yes, it is helmet shell.&nbsp; There is no agreed upon name for this type of cameo, although they are quite common.&nbsp; Because they sometimes feature a woman &amp; a well or well house in the scene, you frequently see them misidentified as <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/religious/rebecca-at-the-well" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/religious/rebecca-at-the-well" rel="nofollow">Rebecca at the Well</a>, even when there is no well.&nbsp; I just call them country or village scenes.&nbsp; Have never seen any 2 exactly alike.&nbsp; They seem to be out of cutters&#039; imaginations, cobbled together from a visual vocabulary of stock elements.&nbsp; The tortured tree is obligatory; the rest is a Chinese menu: woman/women; stream/river, with or without bridge; goat, dog or waterfowl; little buildings, ruined buildings, improbably balanced buildings, sometimes a church; occasionally a child or children.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have gone into my files of signatures &amp; think this is not the Mouhe who did country scenes or the one who did my guy with the fur collar.&nbsp; The way the M is formed is wrong for any example I could find.&nbsp; It is closer to Michelini, who made spikier Ms, except not with those curls at the ends of the legs.&nbsp; Also, although the bulk of his work were not masterpieces, I have never seen a country scene by him.</p><p><br /></p><p>I read it as &#039;Michel&#039; until we come up with something better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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