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I would think earlier John but that's just gut feeling ..those deep saucer dishes shaped like that went away before the late 19th didn't they? The...
I always eat my caviar from shell vessels with shell spoons - just kidding, never tasted it (although I have fished for sturgeon)
There weren't too many producers of porcelain in Italy, Italians prefer to create in pottery to this day so it shouldn't be too hard to nail down....
It is porcelain. Very nice quality and I think it could have been a lamp too.
Agreed, but it is breezy in here from time to time ....
Painting is very crude and as said above not a snowball's chance this is Kangxi or any other Ching dynasty for that matter.
I'm going to say Bohemian.
no idea but a fascinating thing!
Very odd montieth, much later than Republic, I'd put in in the 1980's-90's, certainly post-70's antique collecting revival, just by virtue of it...
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Looks like silver with a gold wash in the inside but maybe that's just the pics? Strange that it isn't marked if 14k
Nineteenth c. version of an earlier painting. Alligatoring like that is common with 19thc bitumen ground paintings. Not fixable.
Out west, we refer to people coming from "back east" as easterners ...what is the politically correct name for them?
Nah, it's a beaker. Germany has made beakers for centuries, it's a German tradition!
Welcome to the club, John :oldman:
Looks pretty Jugendstil to me Fid. I'd go with that. Nice bit o' silver - has to be a vase though, dontch'a think? If it's a religious drinking...
Nice fantasy and good sales pitch for excusing lack of quality control at the factory!
These are actually Chinese and very very lovely. I think you have something quite special here, could be the work of one of the important early...
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