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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9790451, member: 5833&quot;][USER=79705]@mirana[/USER] [USER=17332]@PepperAnna[/USER] [USER=649]@bluumz[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>I need all the guns on this one.&nbsp; What a marvelous piece!&nbsp; I do not know what the source of the image is, if it is indeed not the cutter&#039;s imagination, so I cannot name the young couple, but it is clear what&#039;s going on: Athena, goddess of wisdom &amp; general good sense &amp; self control, is trying to protect a youth from the onslaughts of the lust of the flesh &amp; the temptation of a beautiful young woman.&nbsp; It&#039;s not a scene I recognize either from mythology or from other engraved gems.&nbsp; It feels rather like a scenario known as Hercules at the Crossroads.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484995[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Despite the T hinge, C clasp &amp; overlong pin stem, this is not a Victorian piece.&nbsp; It belongs to a period when shell cameo cutting, after falling in quality, had a resurgence in the 1920s.&nbsp; Has the back been checked for a signature?&nbsp; There&#039;s glare in the photo.&nbsp; I could see this being by Giovanni Noto.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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