[IMG] This is Mercury carrying Pandora to earth. Was going to add a cameo example & found I had this in my Pandora file, probably from an eBay...
Don't know whether this qualifies as a 'half doll', but you might see what a search using that term gets you. What is she holding in her left...
Diamond is the hardest substance produced naturally on earth &, on the Mohs hardness scale, corundum (sapphire & ruby) is second hardest, so...
This one is Hesiod & Perses, who is much younger than Hesiod: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/hesiod-admonishing-perses...
Think it is more likely to be Homer; look at the eyes. And he's much better known to the general public. But I'm not a classicist, WDIK?
Think that would be the 3 Graces who are doing the vestments. The group flying in with the jewellery might be Hours, whose number is uncertain &...
I didn't check their recent sales history, but I bet most of the time they take undisclosed offers.
The mark, the subject & the workmanship are all similar to the work of Charles Schmoll. However, after looking through examples of his various...
Takes offers. :D
Seller has a number of cameos, but seems to know absolutely nothing about them. I suspect not even that not all of them go with the long axis of...
She's just exquisite. I don't think I've seen the like executed in shell before. Given the flower in front of her, I think she has to be seen as...
Gorgeous! Gotta run just now. Will opine later.
I'm going to call them book huggers. :D
The drawings resemble the work of John Flaxman (see his illustrations for the Iliad & the Odyssey). I can understand how someone might be...
From the little I can see, might also be one of the big name Amazons: Penthesilea; Hippolyta; Antiope; Melanippe.
I don't know if there's a generally accepted name for them, but I would call it a forget-me-not ring with memento compartment on the back.
It's Betsey.
There is also a touch of Athena wearing a silenus-faced helmet.
Gryllus/gryllos. But I think this was probably inspired by images of Queen Omphale wearing the lion skin of Hercules/Heracles & that any other...
No one gets very ruffled over the category used for a new posting. If we really think it is 'wrong', i.e., not likely to get seen by the best...
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