Hello, Katie. Looks like a title, Trumpeter____, can't read the rest.
Do I see the remains of thread at 10 o'clock? [IMG] Gives an idea of how it was attached.
Tired of scrolling up & down. [IMG] Do you mean a different typeface? Company seems to have used various. Also I.XL, I*XL, & one with the dot...
I have seen cameos still in their Cameo Corner box. They have been very fine ones. Napoleon & his court started the fashion for cameos that...
It looks like a J to me. Milner just didn't close up the bottom.
My first thought was that the second woman was a maid, but she is just as draped in pearls as the favored lady & what she is holding looks to me...
Just what I was about to say. The line connecting the 2 curves would have been quite fine; it just wasn't impressed deeply enough to last....
It was long ago I read that; I did not make a note of the reference. Feel free to reject an unsupported assertion. Where did you read that the...
Glass was valued as highly as colored stones, a luxury good, not a cheap substitute.
No, you are correct.
I would orient it with Mary upright, not lounging back or leaning forward.
As a brand name, Dolfin seems most likely of the terms. Since it's all so symbolic of Venice (who knew?) something more geographical would also fit.
Think they would be marked HECHO EN MEXICO, made in Mexico.
If not translucent, then probably a very interesting slab of a jasper. How about Rorschach jasper for a name?
Neoclassical seems to be the going term. Looks like there is a caryatid effect on the arms.
I know nothing about furniture, but that lyre back doesn't say Egyptian to me.
Maybe more Gypsy than Egyptian. That was a look in the earlier 70s.
Could be Venus bathing.
I always assume it will cost me double the hammer price on the rare occasions I participate in an English auction, & that's for small, easily...
Thank you for the clarification. It was the shape of the mu that was misleading me.
Separate names with a comma.
