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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 292045, member: 5833&quot;]Hello Packrat,&nbsp; I&#039;m the new girl in town, just looking back over cameo-related posts.&nbsp; You got good advice at the time.&nbsp; This is a beautiful example of this subject.&nbsp; It can be difficult to make a firm distinction between the wine god Dionysus/Bacchus &amp; his female followers, maenads/bacchantes, all that wine &amp; late night carousing have given the guy a soft, androgenous look.&nbsp; I&#039;m inclined to agree that this one looks masculine enough to be considered Dionysus himself.</p><p><br /></p><p>His &#039;attributes&#039; are as you see them here: grapes/grapevine; a staff with a pine cone head (although this looks suspiciously like an upturned acorn) or a fennel stalk, called a thyrsus (or thyrsos); a panther or, as in this case, a ram&#039;s skin draped over the torso.&nbsp; (You can see the head with its curling horn by his right shoulder, 2 forelegs with cloven hooves positioned anatomically incorrectly in front of that.)</p><p><br /></p><p>It is cut in helmet shell, probably in Italy, either in the vicinity of Naples/Torre del Greco or in Rome.&nbsp; You can never be quite sure, as cameo cutting is a portable skill.&nbsp; Luigi Michelini started in Rome but was established in Paris by the time he cut this bacchante.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]94662[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I am guessing this did very well for you if sold on eBay or similar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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