Welcome, Dessert58. Interesting piece. Unless it is heat treated amethyst, think the yellow stone is more likely to be glass than either citrine...
Has a resemblance to some of the pieces taken up in this thread: Ceramic Vase - What Did I Buy? The bottom does not look like Brush-NcCoy to me,...
Not if I bring in @kyratango :D
Google images for 'armorial lion axe'. Yes, having the blade toward the beast does seem to be atypical, as does the attitude of the lion being...
As for the motto, it is the start of a quotation from Juvenal: fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, qui spatium vitæ extremum inter...
[ATTACH] Silver, diamonds, pearls. Completely unmarked except for the cameo itself, which was made in Italy sometime around the turn of the 19th...
Your lady dancing around the base looks influenced by the 'Dancing Hours' John Flaxman designed for Wedgwood.
As in Order of the Garter. It would not be unusual for an intaglio set in a signet ring to become cracked, but the edges of the fracture here...
It compares well with others that turn up in a search for 'beaded sautoir.'
The globe behind & the Korean origin make me wonder if it is connected to the Unification Church.
Welcome, Nadia. This one's for you: [ATTACH]
Zampieri/Domenichino employed that pose for his Cumaean Sibyls too: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] St. John the Evangelist & the various sibyls are all...
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/137248762_meissen-four-seasons-porcelain-figurine-collection https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4201520
So perhaps she is Spring or Summer. Here they are as a pair, the man with dark hair & beard:...
Definitely not Socrates. Since we have no contemporary images of him, literary descriptions that liken him to a satyr have led to the...
Love the woman with the bossy goose. A peasant Leda?
Now we know what the cat's pajamas look like.
Maybe wedding cake knife? Has a ceremonial look to it.
Google is not showing me anything described as being both SELI. FRAM & marble, even when I search specifically for that. Could you provide links...
I keep seeing Yoda.
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