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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9561398, member: 5833&quot;]In a recent <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/french-jet-cameo-please-help.80974/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/french-jet-cameo-please-help.80974/">thread started by Simona</a> a cameo was presented that, based on the original photos and description, I expected to be hardstone of the sardonyx type.&nbsp; Then Mirana produced evidence that what we were looking at was molded glass.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My initial reaction was if it was glass, then it was probably, as so many glass cameos are, Czech. But the delicacy, the refinement of this class of cameo make me think they should be attributed to those masters of gorgeous glass, the French.&nbsp; Plus I think I bought one from France, which is not the source of most of my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>This thread is meant as an addition to the cameo reference material available on the site.&nbsp; I did not want to hijack Simona&#039;s thread with this volume of stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Simona&#039;s is the first of these I have seen mounted on a background that mimics sardonyx:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]457501[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>What I have seen over time, although not so much of late, are glass cameos with a 2-layer base (the base layers seem fused to one another) under a figure that is glued in place, meant to look like tricolor agate pieces that have a red bottom layer topped with pale lavender, and a white figure.&nbsp; The actual stone looks like this from the edge:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]457502[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The glass simulants:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]457503[/ATTACH] and again, cleaner, [ATTACH=full]457504[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457506[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457507[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one, sadly fractured, showing the layer underneath:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]457508[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]457509[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes the layers are black, blue and white:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]457505[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I had my fingers crossed about this ring, until it came apart while undergoing the scrubbing it badly needed (warning here: adhesive on old ones may be water soluble):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]457510[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone have others to show?</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=17467]@Simona Buhus[/USER] [USER=79705]@mirana[/USER] [USER=649]@bluumz[/USER] [USER=8708]@KSW[/USER] and [USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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