Glad to hear the plan is to keep. Its real value is in its having been your grandmothers. To be worn without the whole thing coming unraveled it...
I have seen things of this sort - hand paintings on porcelain that are copies of an existing work - both with the signature of the actual...
She may be hand painted & still be a copy....
I agree that they are most likely to be costume. The tooth-test can decide that. She may have kept them more carefully so that they did not get...
No. Not really, not if you are looking at an item directly or at a very good photo. [ATTACH] They do not run through all parts of the tusk &...
That makes her more the age of my grandmother, but I still think 1940s/50s most likely.
Welcome, Htburden. You don't need a jeweller to tell you whether or not the pearls are genuine or artificial. No matter how smooth they feel to...
@Ownedbybear is correct that in the original lineup the 2 on the left are the goddess Ceres/Demeter. The other 2 belong to a genre that became...
I'd give Gluttony to the chubby one on the right.
A parliament of owls.
Quite possible, maybe even probable, that an apprentice was involved in the simpler bits. There are versions of this image that give her a...
Wonder what it meant about your stature among cameo cutters if you moved your studio to via Babbuino with so many of the others.
Had my fingers crossed you could locate this one. Brava!
All I know is that I love it.
Here's a new case to mull over. This Roma belongs to me & seems to be quite clearly signed 'Cosatt'. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] In the fullness of...
'Lamanoni' seems to occur only in the discarded name of a type of marine snail.
I was wondering what 'thrusts' were. ;)
I was seeing it as M, then occurred to me it could be lower case NI. This insight did not get me anywhere.
I see her as looking serious & intent. If that is a strap running across her torso, then, even without a crescent moon, think we can call her...
Mirana covered it pretty well. The only way you might gain would be if you found an unsigned but exceptionally good cameo, then managed, in a...
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