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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1282992, member: 5833&quot;][USER=63]@cxgirl[/USER] [USER=164]@Christmasjoy[/USER] [USER=5718]@i need help[/USER] [USER=8258]@sabre123[/USER] [USER=142]@shallow_ocean_spectre[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>Need your eyes &amp; thoughts again.&nbsp; I was put in touch with someone who takes a special interest in ancient glass gems &amp; has a huge collection of them.&nbsp; He is convinced the glass intaglio I have derives from the amethyst, even if perhaps some generations removed.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is more difficult to determine by eye alone is whether or not the glass copy is ancient or modern (modern in this context is Renaissance up to today).&nbsp; A former Met curator told me that even with it in hand he probably could not be sure, but, largely because at the time this little fob seal was put together genuine paste gems were plentiful, he thought odds were the intaglio is a genuine antiquity.</p><p><br /></p><p>My other contact leans toward modern.&nbsp; A major reason is the extreme scarcity of ancient gems that have come down today of which we have both the original &amp; an ancient glass copy.&nbsp; Not impossible, highly improbable.</p><p><br /></p><p>He also feels the intaglio does not have the right look for ancient glass.&nbsp; The blue &amp; green intaglio in this photo is one he has no hesitation in declaring ancient.&nbsp; He sees the brown one as looking nothing like it in terms of surface texture.&nbsp; To me they are very much alike.&nbsp; What does everyone else see?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]218026[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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