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FIVE VARIOUS CAMEO BROOCHES, INCLUDING A PROFILE PORTRAIT OF QUEEN VICTORIA
The oval shell cameo carved to depict the bust length profile of the young Queen, wearing a crown with plaited hair looped around the ear, to a simple gold frame with applied corded wire detail; a 19th century oval shell cameo brooch carved to depict Diana in a silver gilt frame; a pink conch shell cameo depicting Mars and Minerva in profile to a plain frame; a pink conch shell cameo depicting a seated musician and dancing figures to a ropework frame, and a oval cameo engraved with a pastoral scene to a plain frame (5)
The oval shell cameo carved to depict the bust length profile of the young Queen, wearing a crown with plaited hair looped around the ear, to a simple gold frame with applied corded wire detail; a 19th century oval shell cameo brooch carved to depict Diana in a silver gilt frame; a pink conch shell cameo depicting Mars and Minerva in profile to a plain frame; a pink conch shell cameo depicting a seated musician and dancing figures to a ropework frame, and a oval cameo engraved with a pastoral scene to a plain frame (5)
Special notice
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Further details
C.f. 'The Art of the Jeweller, A Catalogue of the Hull Grundy gift to the British Museum', Ed. Hugh Tait, London, 1984, pl. 904, p.226 for a sardonyx cameo of the same profile by Paul Victor Lebas (exhibiting 1852-1876). This profile is based closely on the 'Gothic' crown piece first issued in 1841, and it seems likely that the shell cameo version was a later commercial copy of the Lebas hardstone.