They've probably been making them for 50 years or more, anywhere bamboo grows, and pretty common in import stores for most of that time.
There are several clues in the wording of the document..."based on the work of" and "inspired by" and "skilled European glassblowers" can be...
Might try a google image search for "mayan jaguar god" or add the word sculpture to that search....I ran out of time, but here's one image I...
Or Mayan....is the face a bit cat-like? I seem to see some ears above the head. Jaguar-god? I'm not sure I see any great age or value,...
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For sure a mask that is used will show signs of that use, often discoloration and smoothness in the cheek, chin or forehead area, or at the inside...
I see the words "Hand Painted." Could that be Spain under the hand painted stamp....or could be Japan, it is very faint. And there is a line of...
Perhaps he belongs in the haunted object thread.... But I did find a note mentioning that the Schuco compact monkeys had tinplate faces, which...
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He's not really very well rendered, but my vote would be for a winged ox. The winged ox is a symbol of St. Luke the Evangelist; "the ox,...
Does the elephant rotate? Perhaps he has scraped the surface; I see part of a second ring around him.
I don't have an opinion either, sorry.
I'd go along with the above posts. There is a good collectors guide to Beswick, and possibly your local library has a copy; that might help...
To add my views on this discussion: It is important to understand how the carving of souvenir items works in Indonesia, for one. Representatives...
I don't have any kind of expert opinion.....but the photos of the real Monets "touch" me and "move" me, in a way the painting under discussion...
There certainly are similarities. Assuming the ebay attribution of Thai origin is correct, these might be from there....or perhaps more likely,...
I don't have much of an opinion, other than it does appear to be a tourist-type wall-hanging in the shape of a mask. The Indonesians do often...
Indeed. It is really mostly my fault. I admit it. Komo helped. I did like the kachinas!
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