This is the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbos_plate https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1860-0404-1
Hmm. She is not Beatrice Cenci & I can't see that she is Dante's Beatrice. It all depends on the kind of leaves in her wreath. Can you tell...
I was accorded the privilege of being taken down to the Met's vaults by a couple of curators from the department of European Sculpture &...
First, @Simona Buhus Sorry for hijacking your thread with my woes. Nothing was really accomplished at Monday followup visit except to learn that...
As komo said, helmet shell; cameo would have been cut in Italy & set elsewhere. As stracci noted, style of the lady is 20s/30s. This one is...
Had a reasonably comfortable lie-down, but wasn't able to sleep, mainly because I couldn't breathe through my nose. Seem to have stanched the...
Bronwen just got home from the ER (A&E for our Brit friends) a couple of hours ago after tripping on her way in to her local pharmacy, falling on...
I still keep thinking my ivory crushed velvet hip hugger bell bottoms will turn up in the back of a closet. Can't believe I got rid of them.
Think this is the Virgin Mary with the child Jesus, not a saint who died at the age of 12. If it said OPN I would think ora pro nobis (pray for...
From the shape I would say the brooch is a shawl pin. Don't think they've made these in Stella McCartney's lifetime.
Maybe. But it's a virtual certainty that my glass intaglio is a direct copy of some other gem & not in any way original itself. Back to...
Thought so. Ben Livingston is Navajo. The feather in the bundle made me suspect. Other 2 may still be Zuni.
[ATTACH] A dead link says this one is by Ben Livingston. Artist: Navajo Fetish carver Ben Livingston Medium: Alabaster with turquoise eyes/...
I refer to my own as carvings because I do not treat them as religious objects. However, if I were selling, would have to include 'fetish' in the...
Ram with heart line; badger; bear. All with a medicine bundle. Badger & bear look like selenite.
Just spent some time searching several different sources, thinking this figure would readily turn up. Very surprised not to find it right off....
Erratum: [IMG] I knew there was someone else. As usual, was looking for something else in the Paoletti glass impressions & came across this...
Really hard to say. Think it could be any time in the second half of the 19th century. My only thought that might narrow it down at all is that...
But then yours is an intaglio. If you made an impression from it, the result would face the same direction as Thorvaldsen's Night relief.
It wouldn't be morganite. As has been said, the mineral , pink beryl, is lighter, can be yellowish or orangey. Kunzite, pink spodumene, can be...
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