Pott- My fave 2 places are still Sellwood & Aurora,Sellwood still IMHO has more neighborhood ambience though. PS-Plus where else in Portlandia did...
Beautiful piece Pott, love Dayak-good find.
Look at those old theaters-they were the palaces of the middle-class and downtrodden. During the Depression you could feel like a Royal for two...
I like it Chas,I can see the Ebay headline now-'Gunga Din, Karloff,Shirley Temple- 30's Illustrated Film Brochure !' I'll put yer name in lights...
This seems to have a very loose design compared to most Imari I've reviewed.Trad Imari compositions seem to my amateur's eyes much more formal and...
Thanks All for the great help you've been on this piece ! It's amazing what the modern Japanese & Chinese can do with patinas.
Logical Chas-but why tinker with the base, damage,peek inside, or absurdly bad craftsmanship, a definite conundrum:bored:?
Nice work kids-short n' sweet !
Here's the website for the 'International Associations of Paper Historians' with an online catalog of watermarks catalogs/databases-...
Ditto Whit-one would imagine a good forger wouldn't superglue on a base, but some naive farmer or backhoe operator digging stuff up might ! Sure...
What an odd little piece-more closeups of encrustation & corrosion. Chas-Some kind of patch job perhaps.I'd suspect the patch may not have been...
There was a thick, but old bead of glue/epoxy around the base seam,perhaps applied to secure the new section as a patch or seal a water leak.The...
Thanks for sending out the Bat Signal on this one-a most perplexing confabulation Master Bruce !
I wondered abt the cylinder too & then found the same shape on a few other chargers. Re 20th Century-most 20th Cent pieces are marked but prob not...
A 11 7/8" vase with quite the patina,no sig and seems a soldered on base (?). Could be Meiji,or maybe MCM Hollywood Regency-any speculations ? Not...
Love that term 'swanning' ! There's many variations and styles- [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Welcome back Gers- Nice sketch (may have some age). Can you remove the piece form the frame and hold it up to a light to see if the paper has a...
Could she have been in a diving bell/submarine ride at a bygone amusement park, was she a performer in a mermaid show like they have at Coral...
12 3/4" across,1/8" thick, 2.90 pounds,it has a very light blue cast to the glaze.Can't quite tell if the pattern is entirely hand painted or if...
No Bro-For marketing purposes you want them to have a tragic backstory, leading to death & an infamous haunting. Hopefully your objects contain a...
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