Antonio Berini (1770-1830) was a gifted cameo-engraver, and also famous as a neo-classical sculptor. Cameo's were extremely popular in Napoleonic days, and during the rest of the 19th Century. During the Victorian era cameo's were considered suitable mourning jewellery, because of their muted colouring. Also Josiah Wedgwood copied cameo's in vari-coloured jasperware. A huge number of inexpensive cameo's, carved from shell, were produced in Italy, but the hardstone cameo carved in high relief was considered the apogee of the jeweller's art.