This is coming up in a week. For some reason can't add it to my own watch alerts, so I'll forget about it. If you remind me after, I'll see if I...
On the other hand, although below estimate, this one sold for 22,000 EUR....
In this recent auction the lot was passed; it did not sell. https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/valerio-adami-statuette-1982-24-c-5d447e1aef
I hope you do too. Do let us know if they reply. It's an interesting question.
Very Duquesnoy, the central relief. Or Clodion.
Venus & Cupid.
Just speculating from the general knowledge that making a loud noise is part of some religious traditions, such as clapping the hands loudly to...
I always thought Priest sounded like the best thing on the menu.
Definitely not netsuke, ojime, or any part of an inro. If you hold this by the handle & shake the bells about, do you end up whacking yourself in...
Just don't go Sweeney Todd on us.
The Met has a number of portrait medallions by David D'angers. I did not attempt to look at them all; however the 4 I checked out are simply...
Maybe the animal is some type of civet, which would suggest an African or South Asian origin. (I was hoping for a binturong because I like the...
My impression too, hence the question about translucence. Could be horn.
I like evelyb's thought & don't have a better one, but this business of their being magnetic is just so very odd. Did they start that way...
Could the first letter be W? I definitely see wald at the end, so conceivably the product of a forest region in a German speaking country. I...
It's really hard to make out from the photos what any of it is. However, I think the pendant is just an oval segment of whatever it is & not the...
Explains why I kept waffling in my head between ivory & faux ivory. (Bone was never a contender.) In this photo, am I seeing that the outer...
I couldn't possibly say exactly when it was made, but it is not old enough to have any meaning for its value. The Chinese have a thriving...
Thanks. That's quite something.
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