OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL ANTIQUE ART DECO STERLING FILIGREE SHELL CAMEO FLAPPER PIN
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BEAUTY AND ELEGANCE IS WRITTEN ALL OVER THIS WONDERFUL HEIRLOOM! X-Large ORIGINAL ANTIQUE ART DECO STERLING SILVER FILIGREE SHELL CAMEO FLAPPER PIN. OUTSTANDING! Description: The art of cameo carving came from an incent Rome, Italy. Highly sought after around the world carved lava, shell and stone cameo's are still very popular among collectors today and are hard to find! Only experienced skilled carvers were able to create high level of details and transform piece of shell into a masterpiece! It takes skills, creativity and many hours of hard work. Here is an example of such! This elegant and refined Antique carved shell cameo is a beautiful depiction of a young woman from an Art Nouveau/Art Deco period known as flapper, a "new breed" of young women in the 1920s, who brought lots of changes in a cultural and fashion world. They wore bobbed hairdo, shorter close-fitted dresses and lots of accessories. Cameo is masterfully hand carved from real shell with beautiful details and is a perfect example of a fine craftsmanship! Details are simply gorgeous. This x-large high relief carving is elegant and complex at the same time, emphasizing the greatest femininity of the cameo. The effect is quite beautiful! Her face features are especially attractive. She is wearing an elaborate dress accented with a bow and a gorgeous floral
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