It should be I BEAR YOU, not I BARE YOU.
Thank you. It's harder knowing what to make of something like this than of the genuine article.
@Snowman Cometh MEDUSA PSYCHE I like the Medusa, even though I 'm generally not attracted to modern work. Hey, as I said to a friend who...
This is almost literally making my head spin. Do I count 3 figures heading out from each side of the handle, separated by a figure on a plinth,...
This was really interesting, the way paintings from different countries tended to show a characteristic craquelure. This one still looks far too...
On another look, I think the figures were cast along with the rest of it. So far have not been able to make any sense of it. Often it is little...
The way the craqelure has developed in parallel lines that way looks very wrong to me, but this is far out of my field, so others may educate me.
In the world of bronze oinoche, as supplied by Google, your vessel is unusual in 2 things: the color of the patina, so olive green with no hint of...
I tried enlarging her & got the impression she might be wearing the 'mural' crown of Fortuna/Tyche. Having another element that brings to mind...
I have met some cameos that are Celluloid or similar, but never one I thought was Bakelite, despite some described that way turning up here &...
This is a salesman's sample case from 1918: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I can't see any of the ornamentation well enough to have a go at identifying figures or action. Wondering whether bottom is a replacement.
Never thought about it & have no learning or experience to base a guess on. I can tell you some are more common in the marketplace than others....
As far as I know, these are Czech glass & assembled from 2 pieces.: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
They're all lovely. What/who is depicted in the dangly one like a little shrine on the far left? Nothing wrong with artificial as long as some...
And that was the intent in starting the thread: exposing the cameo naive to the wider world of these gems; to share knowledge among us & with the...
Partly a matter of taste. I like to restore cameos to the way they looked right after the cutting was finished, but some seem to have had some...
Cameos & the mount they are in are not always the same age. Either way, it's exquisite.
[ATTACH] When I look at it in my photo editing program it looks like a capital D, some space & then an A, with some scribbling underneath. The 3...
Is it possible that 'monkey spoon' arose from the resemblance of the curled handle to the tail of a prehensile monkey? That, or the way they...
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