At least one can understand how Ceres could get covered in dirt! No immediate take on the signature, although think it definitely is one. I'm...
As I recall, a search for 'drunk monk painting' turns up what appears to be its own little genre.
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A monkey crossed with a platypus?
Guessing there's also a figure 8 safety clasp on the side of the box clasp? And does it also have the standard safety feature of a 2 step process...
I'm seeing something like 22nd Biennial Congress... at the start of the writing.
Is it possible the rider & reins were added to a brooch that was originally just the fish? I find it very odd that the figure straddles his...
It's my impression that these navette shaped cameos were popular in the early 20th century. She looks inspired by the Herculaneum dancers.
She's kind of a generic figure to whom various attributes can be added: flowers; grapes; crescent.
The word 'heishi' is coming to mind.
Sold by a male descendant who had no idea about it. It's in a cheap little brass easel mount, so I suppose he didn't see much value in it....
It didn't work for lots of us. The security certificate for the site expired & was not renewed until about a week later. Browsers saw it as a...
Just the way it is. And you know she is Thorvaldsen's Day: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/day-and-night?start=2
I get that same melancholy feeling from seeing old photos of newlyweds, studio portraits of children, etc. I started doing Pinterest in large...
I also wrote them about it, although probably with less detail & less certainty than you did. Not nearly so long ago as that. Five years maybe?...
Good Heavens! What a lot of work you put in. Hope you did it primarily for your own records. Consignor must have set reserves that were way out...
To me, the question is not Book's as to why anyone makes such things so much as why does anyone set them? I have long said that cameo...
Pepper is every bit as knowledgeable as I am & I agree with her on this one: cameo definitely much newer than the mount. My opinion only differs...
I sent Pierluigi the link for your post. How in the world did this piece get so filthy?!
Only Living Boy in New York. Weather & transit really are about all the news I need, but public radio keeps me up on the bigger affairs, with BBC...
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