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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 506656, member: 5833&quot;]Very interesting and very nicely cut.&nbsp; Must have been quite avant garde in its time, which is early 20th century.&nbsp; The cutter was influenced by the art nouveau style for his lady, but, in abandoning the conventional cameo oval shape in favor of the shield shape of a lobe of the helmet shell sawn off without then rounding down the point, he was experimenting in the direction of deco.&nbsp; The cutter&#039;s acid-etched initials are another innovation of the time.&nbsp; Afraid they do not mean anything to me.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]165191[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The jeweller who set the cameo, by contrast, was behind the times, which seems generally to have been the case in Italy at the time, at least when it came to this sort of thing.&nbsp; It may have been a deliberate choice, the intention being to give the impression the piece was older than it was.&nbsp; I have seen many others from this period I have suspected of having findings that were purposely anachronistic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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