A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 153
CAMEOS AS RELIEF SCULPTURE reliefs, the memorial of Christofle, the Parisian silversmith, the work of Louis Oscar Roty (born 1846), to whom also we owe the new coinage of France (see Fig. 172). A cameo is a carving in relief, usually in a very hard stone such as chalcedony or onyx, though in … Fig. 171. Plaque by L. O, Roty. Commemorative of Charles Christofle, 1863. Three and three-fourths inches long modern times many have been carved in the sub- stance of certain thick and compact marine shells. There is no particular connection between the central idea of the cameo and the use of…
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