CAMAIEU is also frequently applied to any kind of gem on which figures are engraved either indentedly or in relief. In this sense the lapidaries of Paris are called, in their statues, cutters of cameaux.
A society of learned men at Florence undertook to procure all the cameos or cameaux and intaglios in the great duke's gallery to be engraved; and began to draw the heads of different emperors in cameos.