https://morsemuseum.org/on-exhibit/rare-and-remarkableart-pottery-of-louis-comfort-tiffany/ This mentions white clay, which is what yours appears...
My guess is that it is called a monk's chair/table because it could fit in a monk's cell; a compact way to have a chair, a table & a drawer....
Mother of pearl is a popular term for nacre. Many mollusks line their shells with nacre (& not all pearls come from oysters). Abalone shells...
A search for cushion cut golden topaz will also yield pix of similar looking stones.
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Thanks for using one of your credits on my photo. :kiss:
[IMG] I should expand on the relevance of my photo to OP's. This is my grandmother (front right) with her 6 much older sisters. Their little...
Double Wow! :jawdrop::jawdrop: Thanks again.
Thank you also for your attempt at improving the photo quality. Think ChatGPT is the loser in this contest with Davey's program.
Wow! Thanks! I found this family photo on the Internet ages ago, but, as you see, quality was poor.
You'd have to define best/finest, & from whose standpoint. The most highly regarded cameos in the academic/museum world are antiquities engraved...
[ATTACH] This grainy photo is of my grandmother's family. My grandmother is front right.
It's definitely shell. There are a number of members in the Cassis family, which vary in typical color as well as the natural variation between...
Interesting assortment of findings on the back. The pin/hinge style is older, but everything else is more modern. Of course a cameo can be...
Very sweet. Not sure I've seen this exact composition before. From the way it is cut, I'm guessing c. 1920s. What age is suggested by the back?
I had that thought too, although I think this lady has some art nouveau/Isadora Duncan influence on top of the Flaxman figures:...
Very nice. Obvious art nouveau influence, but styles in cameos tend to lag behind the times. I'd put it to 1920s - 30s. The unusual shape...
Pocket icon? I'm just making it up.
Without the book she would conform to traditional depictions of Aphrodite/Venus, which brought Keats to mind: "Beauty is truth, truth...
Quite true. Museums often enough have to sheepishly release the news that some iconic treasure of theirs is actually not what they thought. This...
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