The black piece looks like jet. Fairly light in weight?
Hello! Want to say something about these two jewels? The maple leaf brooch has two small marks (photos didn't turn out well) three small crowns in...
Turkish meerschaum, I should think, for starters. And Roaring has it with Bacchus, or Silenos, one of his companions.
Amethyst is not a particularly expensive stone. I see no reason stones in earrings can't be what they look like. Are the pearls glass?
Hmm....
Think these may be the posted pair. @sunday silence Does the hole in the bottom of the Ariadne piece go all the way through, as for drainage or...
You didn't ask, so maybe you already know, but one scene is Orpheus playing* his lyre to get around Cerberus so he can rescue Eurydice from the...
You might research using the term kylix for the bowl.
Figure on fragment looks like the goddess Artemis/Diana. [ATTACH] I would look to Greek red & black pottery for the footed, handled bowl.
All I can toss in is that Italian doesn't really use the letter J, so even if Italian glass, name that goes with signature probably more like John...
So maybe the debut of some bigger, better gun?
I think that the fact there is no sale price may mean the lot was passed.
What did they do there? Anything to do with artillery?
The figure in the chariot drawn by lions who is wearing a 'turreted' or 'mural' crown is Cybele, a mother goddess figure. There's a whole story...
Pretty example. The exception that proves the rule (in the original meaning of that saying.) Doesn't look like this one swivels, although it is...
This isn't law, just my observation, but Egyptian jewellery holding a scarab(s) does not set the beetle in a way that hides the legs on the edges,...
The site that attributes the painting of the Persian Sibyl to Kaufmann is incorrect, probably mixing it up with Speranza. If you search for...
They switched from using Roman letters to Arabic in 1940, but there are only just so many letters, so they had to begin using them over again,...
Well, you're all in now. The Persian Sibyl by Guercino: [ATTACH] You can find the same painting attributed to Benedetto Gennari, but I think...
This one really does have all the bells & whistles.
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