20th Century French Jet Black Glass Cameo Brooch, the cameo brooch features a goldtone cameo of a woman with a ribbon in her hair, facing to the right, and mounted on an oval black glass piece with a beveled goldtone edge, in excellent condition. Dimenstion 6cm, x 5 cm.
Cameo is the art of carving a layered material, creating a portrait or landscape with the difference in the colors. While traditionally done in shell, banded onyx has been used in cameo work - particularly in Greece and Italy - for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
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