• Material: Ivory, Wood.
• Size: 6 2/8" by 4 5/8", Ivory cameo is 4. 1/2" by 3 2/8"
• Date and Origin: England, circa 1890.
• Conditions: Perfect. Signed by the artist W. Hoegh.

This is a more than Museum Quality cameo carved on ivory depicting Queen Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India. This is a real rarest find. The carving of the cameo is three-dimensional and it is just like a bas relief. The abundance of details is amazing and the carving is something which leaves you speechless. Look at how the ruffled cap worn by the Queen is carved, it is a work painstakingly made, really incredible. Queen Victoria is wearing a lovely decorated shawl over her soft shirt and look at how the shawl is superbly carved. She is wearing earrings, a necklace and a long chain with a pendant. Her expression is fierce and royal. This three quarter cameo shows all her royalty. Her face is amazingly carved and three dimensional, look at her nose, at her wrinkled eye, at her mouth and at her soft cheeks. Also look at how her hair falls behind her ear, simply outstanding. Look at all the wonderful pictures of this cameo and you can see the real art.  All the Victorian spirit is in this cameo.This is a true amazing piece and, as I said above, finding a piece like this in this perfect conditions, is almost a miracle, I'm amazed that it survived almost intact since it was so delicate. This is a real great find and a must have for any collector.
This fantastic cameo is signed by the artist "W. Högh", titled on verso. HÖGH, Wilhelm P. C. (b. 1846 Hamburg)
Wilhelm P.C. Högh went to London in 1866. After Having for some time devoted himself to the more commercial side of his art hi finally found his way in Miniature – sculpture and Carving of Portraits in ivory, since 1876. Members of the Royal Family, the Nobility, several Lord Majors and city magnates are in possession of some of his most successful carvings. Among his statuettes may  be mentioned: “Grace Darling, “Dick Whittington” , “Marguerite” and others, and among his portraits – medallions: “The Jubilee Medallion of Queen Victoria”. From 1867 he worked there as ivory carver for the nobility, in the 1880s he worked mainly for the British royal family, but primarily for Queen Victoria.

A Bit of History


Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any previous British monarch and is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.
Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. Victoria, a constitutional monarch, attempted privately to influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality.
Victoria married her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840. Their children married into royal and noble families across the continent, earning Victoria the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe" and spreading haemophilia in European royalty. After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, British republicanism temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign, her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond jubilees were times of public celebration. Victoria died in 1901 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, at the age of 81. The last British monarch of the House of Hanover, she was succeeded by her son Edward VII of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.