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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9470238, member: 5833&quot;]According to Forrer, Reverchon, père, was born in 1829, his peak years appear to have been 1857 - 1881, having exhibited a stream mainly of portrait cameos in that period.&nbsp; His output seems to have been primarily shell cameos, with some bronze medallions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverchon, fils, worked both in shell &amp; in hardstone.&nbsp; Of the handful of works Forrer lists, all but one are portraits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mme Reverchon worked in shell, also noted as having done portraits.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pieces I have are all signed by the same hand.&nbsp; Since there are enough of them floating around for 3 to come my way, I am assuming they are the productions of the prolific Reverchon, Sr.&nbsp; The signatures on these compare well with the ones I have.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the only time I have seen Reverchon pieces signed on the obverse &amp; employing a carved frame encircling the figures.&nbsp; Pio Siotto seems to have done this routinely, but no other Reverchon I have seen has it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have to wonder whether whichever of them was the author didn&#039;t know the portraits were destined to be encased, where the reverses would be hidden &amp; there would not be a mount to help stabilize the pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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