About the product:

🪨 Type/ name: Cameos/ Cameo in Onyx stone and mother-of-pearl for piece no. 1.

🌍 ⛏️ Origin: Italy

📐 💎 Dimensions: 14 millimeters high x 10 millimeters wide x 3 millimeters thick

✨ Finish/Condition: Like new

🔬 Treatment: None

📜 Certificate: Zen Curiosity

🎁 Ideal as a gift or a treat for yourself!

🔹 Good to know

Definition of a cameo: "The word 'cameo' comes from the Italian word cameo"...

A cameo is a relief engraving, created on a layered stone of contrasting colors (often agate, onyx, or shell) or on glass. Unlike an intaglio (engraving in relief), the cameo reveals the design by subtracting layers.

Cameo is a technique of engraving, or even bas-relief sculpture, of glyptics used mainly on materials with contrasting color layers (camaieu).

The aim is to take advantage of this structure by making these colors appear in specific areas to create shapes. This technique has applications in working with hard stone, glass, and even mortar.

🕰️ Period: 17th century (1600–1699):

🎨 Artistic context:

The 17th century marks the Baroque period, with its expressive and dynamic forms.

Antique cameos from this period are often made of agate, carnelian, sardonyx, or shell. They are mounted on brooches, rings, necklaces, and sometimes set in gold or silver.

Illustrating mythological figures, royal profiles, biblical scenes, or allegorical emblems.

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