I have, a number of times, & usually been pleased with myself for doing so. I have shown these pix a few times, but they are a good illustration...
Just 'cherub' would be enough.
Looks like the little guy on the right at the bottom of Raphael's Sistine Madonna: [ATTACH]
New pix much better for color. Certainly has a leaden look. Wonder whether it leaves streaks on paper because the metal itself is so soft or...
Appears to me that it is both: the black needles are tourmaline; the gold ones are the mineral rutile.
That's what it looks like to me too.
This comes really close....
I keep waiting for it to proliferate & make its way into received cameo wisdom. :nailbiting:
Thanks. I kind of thought I had seen that, but when I did a speedy check of the OP, didn't spot it. So that's settled, but I'm still not sure...
Think she definitely qualifies as what various museums are calling 'the Pudicitia type'. These same statuettes have also been described as the...
Now the winning bidders have to get their furniture to wherever it's going, which could be another small fortune. Wonder where the Canadian...
This one is described as a Vestal virgin by an Italian auction house: [ATTACH]
Catharin W. Barreett I think the writer was semi-literate. Desutate? Deceased? Destitute? of my property Wonder if the last word is a place...
Lab grown rubies, I would have to guess. Neither the diamonds nor the pearls are responding the way I would expect of real ones. The size &...
Was trying to compare the way the tail of the serpent handle trails off, but photos not quite comparable. The dolphin placement is too subtle for...
Well, I've done what some of you probably also did, an image search & see it comes up with things like Genius (essential spirit, not high IQ)...
Roman empress, perhaps. Can't help feeling she's a copy of something. Can't help with the construction. Spelter? Hollow or solid? I should...
It's definitely Cupid. But do we really want to follow Cupid wick trimmer?
It looks more like a step to me than like a chair. Wonder what went in the opening(s)?
Welcome, the-craig. You're in the right place. That's just what we do (when we're not joking around) and I'm sure we'll learn from you too.
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