Word for the day: chatoyancy.
"Wr" would be very unusual for any word/name in French, although place names can be very different from modern French.
I was ready to say I thought it was meant to look like an antiquity but would be very, very careful in coming to that conclusion. Then decided to...
Agree it is glass.
I see a family resemblance in the decoration on this one, but seller does not seem really to know anything about it. The 'portrait' is not a...
Does it have a cat's-eye effect? Or is that a trick of the lighting? For color it looks more like prehnite to me than any other mineral I can...
Quite a piece. Until the real potties weigh in, I'll remark that the portrait strikes me as more likely to be meant for the goddess Juno/Hera...
Spirits, face & a few other bits. :D
Sewing machine or other small contraption that way? Just a wild guess.
Thank you, trying to catch up a little & keep up with the latest. Only just saw this, gave a lift to my day. :kiss::kiss:
I agree it's hand painted, but it looks professional to me. Bavarian china, something like this one (these links don't always work):...
They say it is part of the PU test series. My Italian is not good enough to make a guess as to what PU stood for. They also say the example they...
And this one with less purple & more gold:...
I was still messing around while you got it done.
Since I had not heard of this maker I of course googled it. Barovier's output appears to have been quite varied, but nothing the search showed me...
Just a general remark: this strikes me as such an elaborate piece of glass making, it is hard to imagine that anyone could make convincing fakes &...
Since it is labeled as Fidelity, the carver had a dog in mind for the animal, but it owes a lot to the Allegory of Innocence: [ATTACH] Cameos of...
* Not strictly true. When I look at some of the lists I have saved for Rome in the 1860s, the name Boschetti does appear as a mosaicist. Nothing...
Great researching, Sunny. And thanks for providing the link to the source. These tourists guides are the main way we know about cameists,...
She might be gold wash over silver. I'd put her mid 20s - mid 30s, based on both style of cameo & style of mount.
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