Look like they have a folded foot and with that engraving I'm going to say could be Murano, although I would expect Murano pieces to have rough...
Too OTT to be period, methinks ..just an opinion though ...pretty radical ...Hagenauer made exotic wood and metal sculpture ... usually African...
Glaring Fake
Looks like it's a harder metal than pewter, could it be plated something or other that the plating has corroded on? Not Loetz for sure BTW edit:...
not me sorry!
Those Chinese rugs look like 20's 30's to me, the blue one is a beauty.
If that wasn't painted quite so wonderfully I would say this was a bit of Royal Copenhagen ...but unmarked? Didn't they do a crackleware usually...
If that's Chinese I'll eat my Bok choi - no - my hat.
Silassie Tukai is the artist on this one. Inukjuak, passed away 1994. Both carvings are good ones but are unrelated other than coming from the...
I thought it was for a set of Trinoculars too - maybe Trinovids?
I didn't know that! What a tool I am.
Just carve/scrape/sand away the social insurance numbers and get it as smooth as the rest then give it some shoe polish. The numbers don't look...
Now they are REALLY upside down! :hilarious: (well half of them)
Lots of Lowry fakes out there as they are easy to fake - as is the provenance! Buyers like me are extremely skeptical of Lowry's appearing here...
See all the squares making up the gold background? Gold doesn't really oxidize like that so IMO it would have been treated and possibly it's not...
Well that mark is known as "Chang" (entrails) or the "endless knot" and one of the eight Buddhist Emblems or Pa Chi-Hsiang. Not that really...
first one looks Japanese, second Chinese and that mark should be on Gotheborg as it is a known Chinese mark. last lot Japanese.
IMO it's a decorator piece, pretty cool though, not particularly old, late 20thc or so
the Inuit used shoe polish for wax so I wouldn't worry
Luckily it is pretty simple on soapstone if you're "handy" and can match the sheen afterwards ...unfortunately the damage on other materials,...
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