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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2229536, member: 5833&quot;]I collect &amp; study cameos. When they were in fashion during the 19th century, the subjects were mainly mythological subjects copied from the classical or from the neoclassical, or they were portraits of real individuals.&nbsp; Late in the century you begin to see cameos of pretty women with elaborate hair &amp; a lot of jewellery who are not portraits or mythological figures.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cameos went out of fashion for a while.&nbsp; When they came back, they were almost exclusively pretty ladies wearing flowers &amp;, often, a pearl necklace, like the second &#039;cameo&#039; you posted.&nbsp; An even later development was the addition of a short veil, what I think of as the Lady of Spain look, like your first &#039;cameo&#039;.&nbsp; These appeared when cameos had a another resurgence in the 1950s.&nbsp; The vase could be later than that; it can&#039;t be any earlier.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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