How would you do this with MOP? It has been crimped in at a number of spots. I think it's more likely the MOP plaque came loose or fell out...
I like the mount; simple but unusual. Does the metal have that same rosy tint as it does in the first 2 pix? Low karat rose gold a possibility....
Lava is soft, porous, easy to carve, prone to damage. Think it may sometimes crack spontaneously due to dryness. This mottled Saturn definitely...
I did, but this is not my field.
This is Kauffmann as a cameo, from a self portrait. She has styled herself as a sibyl, representing Hope. [ATTACH]
Evidently she painted the scene more than once. This looks to be the original for the engraving:...
I tend to agree with this, I have a framed print that belonged to my grandmother. Found after she died, no one remembered seeing it in the home...
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I have only seen the C/K substitution with Angelika/Angelica, not Kauffmann/Cauffmann.
The glass dauber is attached where it should be, but you should be able to pick it up by the wreath finial without all the floral decoration...
I was typing even as evelyb30 was posting. Not sure you guys need me anymore, you've been doing very well among you. Sometimes lava cameos have...
Dante Alighieri, in lava. :)
Lalique & His Contemporaries [IMG]
See also: What is this silver mark?
Scooped by AJ. This mark is an obsession of kyratango's.
I thought maybe Redwing, & found there is or was a Red Wing Pottery, but their work does not look like this & pieces don't seem to be marked.
She looks years younger.
I notice the best the V&A can make of the implement we think is for doing some kind of buttons is: "a closed steel loop with steel mounts, and a...
Cool. :nurse:
Schreger lines are the ones that look like crosshatching. You only see them on pieces cut in cross section. The leaves were sliced going the...
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