Here's a piece of Aurene from my stash .. [IMG]
Your second piece looks like a Bidjar or Senneh patterned rug. It may be hand made, but impossible to say without a close up of the reverse
Looks post-war to me, the earlier ones are finer.
It's a bit like Steuben's Aurene too eh?
Not definitely. It looks machine made to me, better close ups are required to say for sure. If a complex pattern like this were handmade it would...
In my opinion, the decorative art aesthetic movement in the UK is as I stated, post 1870's and regarding the Japonisme plate, that was made for...
All the pieces are English ironstone/pottery and macao is a pattern name. The aesthetic movement brown plate could not be 1840's as the style...
Yours is a pale imitation of the one on eBay. The one you have is modern thing and I'm pretty sure no-one would put it on their roof. Seems to be...
The mark is basically part of the decoration and means very little.
Your vase is Chinese and late 20thc at the earliest. Did you have other pieces in that pattern? I say that because that lid is from another piece,...
Yes
Foot looks later than that to me
You can buy these in Chinatown, I eat my dinner from them all the time, not worth $39 that the eBay seller sold it for, they are common and have...
New piece, common fish plate design, utilitarian Chinese porcelain.
Indeed - and now it is the most technically advanced society on earth! A staggering achievement.
Yep, stove blacking, common item in hardware stores ..well ....used to be ...yes?
He's got quite a hoity-toity operation these days and I do have the cheque, just had another look at it ...UGH!
I think the better figures are still collected along with other ephemera from the period. The block prints are climbing steadily in value,...
More than likely the Mediterranean, that type of rig (Dipping lug or gaff) is not seen in the orient AFAIK
Thanks, @John Brassey - the cheque that bounced was for $800 USD ..I wonder how he'd react if I contacted him again, 25 years later through his...
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