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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4478594, member: 5833"]I also see it as hardstone & a Christmas gift to an American Beatrice. There is no reason not to believe that the cameo is contemporaneous with the mount & inscription.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sort of, although used in reverse, with the white for the ground & the colored layer for the figure. 'Sard' is generally used for very dark brown chalcedony; this is more carnelian (cornelian). 'Onyx' comes from the Greek for 'fingernail' & is the white layer. We have gotten into the habit of calling chalcedony that has been died black 'onyx', but it really should be qualified as 'black onyx.' For some other examples:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/materials-guide?start=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/materials-guide?start=2" rel="nofollow">https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/materials-guide?start=2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When I started the cameo show & tell thread, the first cameo I showed & told about was this one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]388597[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The engravers of both Laura's cameo & mine have smoothed the tousled hair down, but the primary image is this medal of Michelangelo by Girometti:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]388598[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4478594, member: 5833"]I also see it as hardstone & a Christmas gift to an American Beatrice. There is no reason not to believe that the cameo is contemporaneous with the mount & inscription. Sort of, although used in reverse, with the white for the ground & the colored layer for the figure. 'Sard' is generally used for very dark brown chalcedony; this is more carnelian (cornelian). 'Onyx' comes from the Greek for 'fingernail' & is the white layer. We have gotten into the habit of calling chalcedony that has been died black 'onyx', but it really should be qualified as 'black onyx.' For some other examples: [URL]https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/materials-guide?start=2[/URL] When I started the cameo show & tell thread, the first cameo I showed & told about was this one: [ATTACH=full]388597[/ATTACH] The engravers of both Laura's cameo & mine have smoothed the tousled hair down, but the primary image is this medal of Michelangelo by Girometti: [ATTACH=full]388598[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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