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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9732143, member: 5833&quot;]Ooh, luscious.&nbsp; A worthy budget bender.&nbsp; I have seen this composition, using the same stone colors, before.&nbsp; I imagine you have too.&nbsp; It must have been a model copied repeatedly.&nbsp; There&#039;s a little bell going off in my head telling me the original may be by Charles Brown &amp; live in the Hermitage?</p><p><br /></p><p>All the notations on the back confirm me in my belief that hardstone pieces with numbers &amp; initials scratched out, with one full signature present, come out of German workshops.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For some reason (a conspiracy of the Italians &amp; French!) no one ever thinks of Germany when they think of cameos, even though the Idar-Oberstein region has been producing them for centuries.&nbsp; Whenever museums are uncertain of the origins of a piece they nearly always attribute it to France or Italy.</p><p><br /></p><p>You will have to give us a whole travelogue of your visit to Idar, with whatever pix they will allow you to take.&nbsp; Would be interested to know to what extent they are still producing cameos.&nbsp; My impression is that they have turned more to sculptural works, art lapidary.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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