Museum quality 19th Century Cameo portrait in original case Ambrotype For Mark Johnson

For Mark Johnson

but he was above all the most remarkable of the French Art Nouveau era ceramists

Measures 10

7” wide x 5” tall x 4” deep

There is writing in ink on the bottom which appears to read “to/from Ahuva”

Museum quality 19th Century Cameo portrait in original case Ambrotype For Mark JohnsonExceptional quality carved helmet shell cameo portrait of a woman in profile, wearing a cap reminiscent of a capped half dollar from the 1820s. Her hair is tied in a bun and a he wears a wreath of oak leaves and acorns below the cap, on her chest between armored breasts appears an eagle with his wings spread. presented in original leather book case of a style later used for daguerreotypes.