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All good comments....Maybe the best hope for ID is to continue trying to translate. May not be St. John, but the first is certainly intended to...
This is indeed one of the standard representations of John the Baptist used in Orthodox iconography, though I can't say from which branch of the...
Negative meaning "no," a possible response if one were asked a question during a signal-flag conversation; I'm not sure which of the many systems...
I do think it would be nice to learn more about Sumiko and the painting even if it has been sold.
I haven't found any very good articles; but it seems that this is a much harder wax than modern candle-wax; in the days before resin-casting and...
And in addition, I enjoy the way the British Roadshow appraisers will often frame the valuation as a question: "If I were to place a value on...
Is it possible the bear is studio pottery rather than commercially produced?
Just for comparison, a walrus ivory lynx by Leonard Savage, Athabascan, from Alaska. I wouldn't think this was the carver of your piece; but it...
Mine would likely be described as Inupiaq Eskimo, from Alaska.
My own opinion: it could well have been carved by an Alaskan Native; there is no reason a bobcat or lynx could not be a subject for a native...
I had to look that one up. :wideyed:
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