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I also love the lamp & wish I had some insight into its making. Sensibility is Tiffany era/art nouveau. Would such a lamp have been reproduced in...
Uh huh.
Definitely a him. He might be known as a specific legendary/mythological figure, but for now he'll have to be youth wearing fillet.
Although it sort of looks like an asterisk, think you're right & it's a Chinese character impressed in the clay.
If I were Taupou, I'd want to see the bottom.
Textured?
Our resident jewellery restoration genius is @kyratango If a stone cannot be found, she may have ideas for how you could disguise the gaps with...
Other way up. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Actually looks like there could be the lotus that is the national mark for Egypt, followed by a date letter....
These sets were the sort of thing adult women wore to parties in the later 1950s/early 60s. Aurora borealis (AB) is the term for these iridescent...
Think it's Egyptian. That looks like Nekhbet on top of the handle & think I see an 800 silver mark below her on the back.
When you photograph again, we want to see your little dog too. What a world.
Men of antiquity freely wore engraved gems of Athena/Minerva and maenads/bacchantes, in all sorts of colors.
I have powerful allies. :)
[ATTACH] @kyratango Do you have any thoughts about how to go about finding this. Foundry mark? Imprimatur? @Sylvie Good job with the new photos.
In better pieces, using a post as well as some glue is the standard way to secure pearls that are not prong set or strung on wire. As I recall,...
Could be a ruby. They do that.
Yes, you explained it well & I think you're right.
I'm still struck by the fact that it's solid ivory. Having a bust made in it seems like such an old fashioned, & lavish, thing to do. The only...
[ATTACH] [IMG] I would say our subject is of the same era & has a lot of similarity but is not Roosevelt. R. has a squarer face; our guy's is...
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