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Description : Epingle ornée d'un médaillon sertissant un camée représentant un portrait de femme de profil à gauche. L'arrière de sa tête est recouvert par un voile. Le sculpteur a habilement su tirer le meilleur parti des différentes couches colorées de la pierre. Le style et la physionomie du personnage sont a rapprocher des productions égyptiennes représentant les princes ptolémaïques. Agate à trois couches et or. Camée : Egypte, Epoque Ptolémaïque (?) 26 x 17 mm. Monture XIXe siècle. Poids 11,7 g.
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About the lot N° 9
Title : Epingle
Size : 26 x 17 mm
Notes : Cameo is a method of carving an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewellery or vessel made in this manner. It nearly always features a raised (positive) relief image, contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. Originally, and still in discussing historical work, cameo only referred to works where the relief image was of a contrasting colour to the background, this was achieved by carefully carving a piece of material with a flat plane where two contrasting colours met, removing all the first colour except for the image to leave a contrasting background.Today the term may be used very loosely for objects with no colour contrast, and other, metaphorical, terms have developed, such as cameo appearance. This derives from another generalized meaning that has developed, the cameo as an image of a head in an oval frame in any medium, such as a photograph.Ancient and Renaissance cameos were made from semi-precious gemstones, especially the various types of onyx and agate, and any other stones with a flat plane where two contrasting colours meet, these are hardstone cameos. In cheaper modern work, shell and glass are more common. Glass cameo vessels, such as the famous Portland Vase, were also developed by the Romans.Modern cameos can be produced by setting a carved relief, such as a portrait, onto a background of a contrasting colour. This is called an assembled cameo. Alternatively, a cameo can be carved by the traditional, but far more difficult, method directly out of a material with integral layers or banding, such as (banded) agate or layered glass, where different layers have different colours.Sometimes dyes are used to enhance these colours.An engraved gem is a small gemstone, usually semi-precious, that has been carved, in the Western tradition normally with images or inscriptions only on one face. The engraving of gemstones was a major luxury art form in the ancient world, and an important one in some later periods. Strictly speaking, engraving means carving in intaglio, with the design cut into the flat background of the stone, but relief carvings, with the design projecting out of the background as in nearly all cameos, are also covered by the term (this article uses cameo in its strict sense, to denote a carving exploiting layers of differently coloured stone). The activity is also called gem carving, and the artists gem-cutters. References to antique gems, and intaglios in a jewellery context, will almost always mean carved gems. Vessels like the Cup of the Ptolemies and heads or figures carved in the round are also known as hardstone carvings and similar terms.Glyptics, or glyptic art, covers the field of small carved stones, including cylinder seals and inscriptions, especially in an archaeological context. Though they were keenly collected in antiquity, most carved gems originally functioned as seals, often mounted in a ring, intaglio designs register most clearly when viewed by the recipient of a letter as an impression in hardened wax. A finely carved seal was practical, as it made forgery more difficult - the distinctive personal signature did not really exist in antiquity.
HVMC - Hôtel des Ventes de Monte-Carlo, auctioneer, Monte Carlo, MC It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : Camées et Intailles
Sale date : 24 Jul 2014 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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