I have found those very rectilinear shaped marks & the practice of marking every major element in a piece, the use of 800 silver & eastern Arabic...
It has an Egyptian-looking mark for 800 silver on every panel. (A couple not well stamped but presumably the same as the ones that are.)
Is it decorated with moriage?
Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of...
Is the 'pot' large enough to be a tureen?
The whole project got started because I would identify the subjects on cameos for other people, who urged that I should write a book. Not about...
Oh, I understood that. I just realized right off that I didn't need to hear more to add my 2 bits. I don't have experience with price guides for...
Thank you. And you helped make it better. :) It's useful, when an antique jewellery dealer has a perfectly lovely pink & white bacchante...
I only watched the very beginning of the video, enough to learn he's specifically talking about price guides. They always had the drawbacks...
Thank you! It's for the greater good, part of my campaign to end the confusion between conch shell & angel skin coral.
Does this qualify as Hollywood Regency?
There would appear to be 4, unless they are not evenly spaced.
Without checking, isn't this the way Van Gogh signed his work & didn't he do many paintings of bridges?
Having never heard of dragon skin agate before, I would have gone with ezeepass on this & said coral. I'm still not sure it's not apple/sponge...
Refresher course: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/reference/materials-guide?start=1 Hey @KSW Can I use your 4th photo? I think that article...
I would call them caryatids rather than goddesses.
Unless Jurado is the last name, 'Pint' is like 'pinx' & the artist was making it clear that the good father was the photographer; Jurado, the...
Maybe they were published in series & covers went with that edition of the series instead of relating to the contents of an individual volume?...
The one above is more a piece of inlay work (pietra dolci?) but there are opal pieces carved in relief, as you see. These days any carved opal...
I know they will also put in the file for the piece my correspondence with the curator that lays out the argument, including pictures, so the...
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