Cameo Collection

Cross of Lothair II. Aachen Cathedral Treasury. Germany
Cross of the Emperor Lothair II (835-869). 11th century. Gold and precious gems. Aachen Cathedral Treasury. Germany

Portland vase in the British Museum. Cameo vase in blue and white glass with historical or mythological figures. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Henry Moses from A Collection of Antique Vases

Art Nouveau Headdress / 1
An Art Nouveau headdress of ornamental fillet with elongated sections, incorporating a cameo, hanging over the ears. Also matching ornamental shoulder straps

The Bird of Paradise and Colonel Witwou'd, - actress and courtesan Gertrude Mahon (nee Tilson) and George Bodens, Gentleman Usher to the King Date: 1781

The Abandoned Wife and The Seducing Captain Date: 1781

The Subtle Seducer and The American Financier, Richard Price
The Subtle Seducer and The American Financier - Richard Price, British philosopher, nonconformist minister, mathematician, supporter of American independence

Queen Victoria holding a fan Date: circa 1900

Cameo portraits of seven Allied Generals
Posted from the BEF in France the card shows the team United against the Barbarians'. Passed by Censor 1332. WW1 Date: 1915

A beautiful and highly-detailed chromolithograph scrap portrait of Victoria (1819-1901), Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death

Depictions of Jason, Minerva and Medea
Jason building his ship the Argo with help from Minerva on a terracotta bas-relief in the villa of Cardinal Alessandro Albani 1, figure of an owl from a Greek vase 2

Militiades, Themistocles and Pyrrhus I
Busts and gems of Athenian politicians Miltiades the Younger 1, 2, Themistocles 3, 4, and King Pyrrhus I 5. Milziade, Temistocle, &c

Ruins of the mausoleum to Drusus near Mainz, Germany
Ruins of the Drususstein (Drusus stone) mausoleum to Nero Claudius Drusus near Mainz. Drusus died battling the Chatti Germanic tribes in 9BC. Vestigia di un Sepolcro

Enlarging lantern advertisement 1905
Advertisement from W.Butcher and Sons camera house based in London, England. The advert promotes 3 different enlargers for creating photographic prints. 1905

Cameo rings, gold bauble and writing tools
Cameo rings with Pan and archer, golden bauble from a figure of a young Nero in the Villa Lante 2, cylindrical box to store papyri in a library 3, and a waxed tablet and stylus

Portraits of Maria, Catherine II and Princess Elizabeth
Portraits of Maria, Queen of Portugal, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, and Princess Elizabeth. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co

Gem and cameo engraving tools and equipment. Copperplate engraving by William Blake and Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J

Front cover, Booseys Cabinet Operas, Il Trovatore, Verdi
Front cover, Booseys Cabinet Operas, Il Trovatore, by Verdi, arranged for piano by Rudolf Nordmann. Date: late 19th century

Greetings card in the shape of an ornate golden box with an oval cameo with initial B. circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of an ornate golden box with an oval cameo. (1 of 2) circa 1890s

Old Woman Reads Letter Date: 1941

Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia and Magdalena Ruiz
Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566-1633). Infanta of Spain. Portrait of Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia and Magdalena Ruiz, 1585-1588. By Alonso Sanchez Coello (1531-1588). Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Miss Lilian Braithwaite - English Actress
Miss Lilian Braithwaite (1873 - 1948) - English Actress. Date: circa 1905

Marquisse of Castillejo. Engraving. Colored
Marquise of Castillejo. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1870. Colored

Portrait of Manuela Camas y de las Heras, Consort to Juan Ag
Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Spanish romantic painter. Portrait of Manuela Camas y de las Heras, Consort to Juan Agustin Cean Bermudez. C. 1785, Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Ecritoire given to Marie Antoinette by Louis XVI.. Chromolithograph by Gillot of an illustration by Edouard Garnier from The Soft Paste Porcelain of Sevres, Maison Quantin, Paris, 1891

The Cameo Ballroom at the Morrison Hotel, Chicago Date: 1920s

GAUDͬAntoni
GAUDI i CORNET, Antoni (1852-1926). Portrait of the early 20th c. DOMINGO PEREZ, M. (19th-20th century). Relief. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona. G� alace

WWI Poster, What Burns said
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, What Burns said in 1782 holds good in 1915. Take his tip. (Go and be a soldier.) Date: 1915

Variety of Gemstones
Left to right, top: Onyx, cornelian, tigers eye, jet, turquoise, lapis lazuli, hematite, jade. Bottom: Ivory, amber, coral, cultured pearl, freshwater pearl, shell, cameo

Mocha stone, sardonyx and agate
Mocha stone and sardonyx cameos resting on artificially dyed slabs of agate. All these varieties of chalcedony derive from the cryptocrystalline quartz group

Nautilus pompilus, common nautilus
A seventeenth century carved nautilus shell showing three techniques used by Dutch craftsmen: cameo work, engraving and an opening resembling a helmet cut into the wall of the chamber

Precious opal
A Cameo representing the dawn, on a limonitic matrix from Australia. Opals are not truely crystalline and are therefore mineraloids. They comprise of (hydrated silica glass)

Malachite cameo and malachite-chrysocolla mass. Malachite (copper carbonate hydroxide), has a distinctive green banding and belongs to the carbonate class

CATHERINE de Medicis (1519-1589)

Le printemps or spring

Birthday greetings postcard, featuring a lovely little sentimental poem, two pink roses and a photograph of a pretty girl in an oval cameo insert. Date: 1915

Lincolnshire Cameo
A North Lincolnshire cameo, near Barnoldby-le-Bec. Date: 1960s

Advert for Craven Cigarettes 1939

Cameo Room at the Morrison Hotel, Chicago
The Cameo Room (Ballroom and banquetting hall) at the Morrison Hotel, Chicago with convention attendees Date: 1920s

Music cover for A Christmas Bouquet of Choice Dance Music, by Eminent Composers. A cameo picture of a young woman in folk costume is surrounded by holly, mistletoe and flowers

Costume & Doll 1859
Purple dress with bouillons at the hem, vertical trim & pelerine bodice. Green & black dress with double skirt & funnel sleeves with epaulettes. Girl in knee-length grey dress

Regency Beauty
A Regency beauty wearing a white robe over a blue slip, low cut corsage with lace tucker & medici collar, cameo belt buckle, pearls, long gloves & Kashmir shawl

Order of Star of India
ORDER OF STAR OF INDIA : Instituted in 1861. Shown here are the collar of lotus & the heraldic rose of England; an Investment badge pendant & ribbon with cameo of Victoria

Augustus (Cameo, Colour)
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR AUGUSTUS (originally Gaius Octavius, also known as Octavianus) First Roman Emperor

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