Oh, good. The trouble with 9ct is that it doesn't look like real gold. I can easily pick up photos to save directly from the site. Anyway, the...
I agree it has a Deco look about it; whether that was intentional or not...
While we're waiting, the first one is carved in helmet shell, no doubt by an Italian cutter. It does not depict anyone in particular, just a...
The one that got away is an excellent use of the color layers of the shell to show this Athena: [IMG]...
Even though the carver has included none of her attributes other than that she is wearing a helmet, I think you are correct that the subject is...
All these perfume bottles & atomizers are evocative of the time & lifestyle when a woman had a vanity table with all the requisite accoutrements....
Sets of 4 women always make me think Four Seasons, that is, if 4 is a complete set. What do you make out of the signature? I see Jea_f___.
Nice to get such a closeup view of these famous pieces.
What happens when you try to use it?
Yes, they don't just start chiseling away. Sometimes they model in clay or plaster. And when it comes to marble, the artist considered the...
Our man DaveyD explained a bit about skeleton keys here: old Keys
A pretty little piece & no one but you will know her secrets. :)
There's a maker's mark similar to yours if you scroll down to RTR, identified as Raymond Bitosi, Navajo. Raymond seems to be flying under the...
Suggest you restrict your search to 'jet mountain lion fetish'. No telling what will be presented for your consideration if you're too general....
Google Image Search did a phenomenally bad job with the photo of the back.
If this is not a figure from history or literature, another allegorical figure it might be, in addition to Despair, is Sorrow, although I admit...
Maybe jet. A mountain lion with a silver heart line. Personally I try to reserve 'fetish' for items that are actually being used in that...
These senoritas are a 1950s type. Yours is meant to look like the same materials as used in Simona's brooch but as far as I can see all man made....
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I don't. It's the sculpture that is neo-classical. I was responding to: It has been my observation that cameo cutters are not at the...
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