A patera, perhaps. Good observation. It would normally be Hebe or Ganymede serving Zeus, but it really does look like Hermes to me. Probably...
The thing I never quite get used to is that crudely engraved gems like this one are later than the highly accomplished ones of the Hellenistic and...
I shot off a note without really looking closely, so retracted my hasty impression. Have revised it now. Still working on OP's question, but...
Appears to be Herakles/Hercules, not Cecrops. Athena welcoming him to Olympus would be my guess. There are similar scenes where the female is...
* Thorvaldsen's version: [ATTACH]
I'll get back to this later, after I take care of some things I have to do first, but my immediate impressions are that this one is stone,...
I'm not sure I know what you're asking, so forgive me if this does not answer it. In an intaglio, the figure/design is engraved down into the...
I always thought the dress looked like a little girl's idea of a bride's dress, & then she mixed up the order of his names when saying her vows....
It is a glass intaglio meant for leaving an impression in sealing wax. Judging by the small size, probably, as CC said, from a watch fob seal or,...
This thread is turning into All Schmoll, All The Time. This auction has been & gone, but not Lincoln & not Lee, sold for 125 USD:...
They are representing this as lava, although pricing as if they know better:...
He looks Depression era inspired to me & like he's asking, Brother, can you spare a dime?
Did you mean to say you skipped school? Or were they showing it at your school & you were eager to get there? Here in the US, I got up in the...
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It looks to me like the D is more than just ornate; could be a monogram with 1 or 2 other letters inside. Your former coworker sounds like a...
An E. First orientation is correct.
Keep forgetting that if we ever want to find specific posts, key words needed in text. Silz Schmoll
This is not mine, just a saved pic: [ATTACH]
Mouhé. Cupid & Psyche. These days we generally depict Cupid with a bow & arrows only, but Venus also gave him a torch, to inflame passions....
Maybe just tea dust? Are you saying the turtle shell is a real one, not just metal designed to look that way? Turtle shells are bone with sort...
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