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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 8842360, member: 5833&quot;]Schmidt did incredible things with difficult stones.&nbsp; As Ms. Barber said, most of his work is not signed, so these days every last opal cameo gets ascribed to him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would like to have a better view of the cameo on the front of the plinth.&nbsp; She IDs the cameo on one side as Cleopatra &amp; the one on the back as Isis, but misidentifies the one on the other side as Minerva when it actually looks like Queen Nefertari, a fitting companion for the 2 other Egyptian figures.</p><p><br /></p><p>She also keeps saying the bust is carved from a single piece when it is - as if this were not enough - the head and the helmet &amp; its crest that are a single piece.&nbsp; The shoulders &amp; chest are agate; without them the head would be a head, not a bust.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a gorgeous example of lapidary art.&nbsp; Thanks for sharing it with us.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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