Questions: Would transferware (transfer under clear glaze) rub/wear off like china paint over glaze? It looks like part of the border at the...
Directions for posting pictures: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/making-a-post-and-uploading-pictures.16038/ Just be sure to make each pic...
It looks like a teapot (or coffeepot?) on a warming stand (AJ's kompoor). I do not understand how it could be an lantern--it looks like solid...
This was Douai-Rheims, translated from the Latin Vulgate. Although I have multiple translations & a Vulgate on my bookshelves, I often cite D-R...
Abraham sent his servant to find a bride for his son Isaac. The servant asked God to give him a sign, when he asked the right young woman at the...
I assumed this was a tinted (hand-tinted, as Ghopper says) engraving (as the online sources indicate.) Probably not a woodcut. (I assumed that...
Now I am not even sure that is a dome surmounting the dark blue part. I hate it when I cannot ID an iconographic detail.
I love modern versions of traditional medieval & Renaissance themes. But what is the image above Mary the Mother and John? Can you supply an...
Your engraving is “The Departure of Rebecca” or “Rebecca’s Farewell” (Genesis 24:59), depicting Rebecca leaving her father’s house with Abraham’s...
States are different versions of a print. For example, an artist will try a version (state 1), pulling one or more prints and then rework the...
Just because I like to post art historical images, here is a Flemish (1680-1712) ivory statuette of Mary treading on the serpent--from the Walters...
Genesis 3:15: I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for...
The statue refers to the Virgin Mary as the Immaculate Conception, treading the serpent (symbol of the devil and sin) underfoot. “Mary’s...
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Attribution controversies abound--although you are right that we do not know for certain. No documents survive that name the artist. However,...
Wow! I am overwhelmed. So many excellent responses! Thank you, everyone. Now how do I give "best answer" to multiple replies?
Thank you for all the information. I did not know about the fractional number patterns. I have wondered what the numbers on the verso were. I...
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