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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 770179, member: 5833&quot;]Suggestive, but far from conclusive.&nbsp; This was sold as:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/woolley-and-wallis/catalogue-id-srwo10194/lot-69996a28-02e3-4a32-8554-a94a00ccd2ed" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/woolley-and-wallis/catalogue-id-srwo10194/lot-69996a28-02e3-4a32-8554-a94a00ccd2ed" rel="nofollow">A Roman basalt cameo </a></p><p>circa 1st - 2nd century AD</p><p>relief carved with the bust of a maiden,</p><p>3.4cm high, on a stand. (2)</p><p>Provenance</p><p>William Bowmore Collection, Victoria, Australia, acquired 1950&#039;s -1960&#039;s.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]190396[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]190397[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If you search eBay for &#039;lava cameo&#039;, you will find cameos such as this one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]190398[/ATTACH] overpriced at $48.</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone thought a dirty, crude, Neapolitan &#039;lava&#039; (solidified ash) cameo, late 19th century oldest, was worth mounting on a base.</p><p><br /></p><p>It really does look like Snoopy.&nbsp; Only thing I see that suggests anything else is in the first photo, figure could be wearing a large ear plug.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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