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Capital Antique Province:
Antique in the west (238,405); Aklan in the northwest ( 226,232) ; Capiz in the north (315,079) ; and Iloilo in the east and southeast (972,000). The large island of Guimaras is ad¬ministered as part of Iloilo Province.
The principal ports are Iloilo (1960 pop. 157,-072) in Iloilo Province, the port of entry and main business center for Panay and Negros Is¬land to the east, and an export center for sugar; Roxas City, formerly Capiz (49,326) in Capiz; Ibajay (25,305) in Aklan; and San Jose de Buena-vista (17,124), in Antique.SAN JOSE, island and military base, Panama, in Panama Province, is one of the Pearl Islands in the Gulf of Panama. It has an area of about 25 square miles. Since World War II it has been used by the United States as a military base. SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, san (h)o-za' de bwa-na-vis'ta, town and municipality, Republic of the Philippines, on Panay Island, capital antique Province of Antique Province, is located 40 miles northwest of Iloilo, on Cuyo East Pass. It is a rice-growing and copper-mining center, exporting copper, copra, rice, and sugar. Pop. (1948) town, 5,159; municipality, 34,639.
See Also Preference Antique Cameos:
Anyhow, the 18th century preferre cameos to the shell variety. The 19th c took to shells again and created a dema them among the less opulent classes. For ; shell cameos in the form of brooches, etc. 1 the fashion for personal adornment. The d for the big, unframed shell cameos, popv the Renaissance, was not revived. Ho connoisseurs now began to collect the older and this new hobby led to a startling rise price of the finest preference antique cameos and Renaissance mens. When the English Marlborough Co. was dispersed in 1899, a shell Laocoon cam< by the famous Flamingo in the 17th centun for £335.History.—It is believed that shell cameos originated in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Greek and Roman writers cursorily mention Egyptian and Babylonian specimens, which they ascribe to the 4th millennium B.C., but none of these have sur¬vived. Probably the earliest artistically carved example known to us is the Triducna Squamata shell in the British Museum, London, said to be of Phoenician workmanship, 6th or 7th century B.C. In Greek and Roman times, shell cameos were well known in upper class circles, but only a few preference antique cameos specimens have come down to us. This scarcity cannot with certainty be explained. Perhaps the costly shells were not in wide popular demand, or perhaps, if they were plentiful, they were discarded when the ravages of time marred their beauty and integrity.
On The Other Hand See Occasionally Antique Cameo:
Occasionally antique cameo and overlay originated with the Roman glassmakers, whose mastery of the art has not been equaled. In this process, a glass design of a contrasting color, carved or molded to form a bas-relief, is overlaid on a glass vessel so that the design stands out, resembling a Occasionally antique cameo. The glass is then reheated until fusion takes place. Chinese glassmakers in Peking developed a dis¬tinctive Occasionally antique cameo style in the 18th century, usually using the brightest of colors.By the 16th centt craft of shell Occasionally antique cameo-making had again b< flourish, both in the Italian and in the Frei Flemish cities. Shell Occasionally antique cameos continued to 1 in Italy and France until the end of tl century, when the demand died out. Mo century shell Occasionally antique cameos show some deteriorati the world's leading museums contain a fai ber of Renaissance examples. A majority c Occasionally antique cameo pictures are found on helmet-conches, on pearly Meleagrina shells, and nautilus shell. The big helmet-like Occasionally antique cameo used to decorate libraries, and reception The smaller pearly Occasionally antique cameos were tastefully and worn as wristbands, earrings and nee A Occasionally antique cameo made from shells was perha crudely elemental to suit the formal 18th c taste.
