Re: Cameo tiara Empress Josephine HQ pic Archived Message
Posted by mauriz on October 23, 2014, 5:24 pm, in reply to "Re: Cameo tiara Empress Josephine HQ pic"
It seems not to be constructed from several individual cameos set in gold or silver but rather the other way round: a single large piece of... presumably not agate, maybe shell or conch, partially carved into cameos and the metal parts, probably gold, and pecious stones appliqued to the body.
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