I'm impressed about the sharpening ! A computer genius ! Maybe the style of the frame can tell someting about country and age ?
[ATTACH] This portrait relief of goddess Flora looks carved from some sort of bone, possibly ivory ? The backside handwritten text tells in...
Thanks for the Parker-Hale suggestion. On my candlesticks the hyphen is missing. Only PH, as written here. Don't know if that has some importance....
I can't take a good photo of 2 mm high dark letters on a dark background.
[ATTACH] Here's a pair of brass candlesticks. Baroque form, but probably only one hundred years old ? 24 cm high. Marked on the bottoms with 2 mm...
I contacted Sotheby's. Based on the photos, they think that mine too could be by Hoet, but of course they can't tell with certainty, probably no...
Used auction catalogs are mostly discarded. For the moment I believe the painting doesn't need a conservator. I did however send both photos to an...
The RKD painting measures 31.8 cm x 45.1 cm and lacks the upper third of mine. Mine measures 55 cm x 50 cm. So it's not the same painting, but two...
The monetary value is of no interest to me.
Now there's news ! A smaller, signed version without the upper third, by Gerard Hoet (1648-1733) is found registrered in the Dutch RKD archive. So...
Thanks for the many answers ! The monetary value is of no interest to me. The Poussin track is interesting. Maybe one of his pupils ?
If they had known at Bruun Rasmussen I had't made this post.
I bought it at Bruun Rasmussen and they didn't know. But thanks anyway ...
Here's a Bacchanal with Bacchus at the center. Oil on canvas. 55 cm x 50 cm. Looks Italian and 17th century to me. Maybe the frame is the...
About the flag pole top ornament theory: Possible, but the eagle has no holes for fixing with nails or screws ? About answers from V & A: They...
This eagle figurine is a flea market find. The Chinese wooden base, seen to the left, is my addition and not original to the figurine, so no need...
Figurines like this one was often small scale copies of admired statues. So maybe we should have a look in our local park. I've done so,...
True. As you remember I called it that in the headline. But outside France a chair.
A couple of years ago I bought this figurine at an auction. Pan of bronce sitting on a 'rouge griotte' ? marble base. 17.5 cm high. French ?...
True. My chair has 'crinoline width'. I believe it's from about 1850-1870.
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