Yep & yep.
What do you read below 'on Porcelain'. Where exactly is 'lower part of handles'?
Ah, four ages of man. Despite the lady on a lion, a la Cybele/Tyche, she represents the prime of life. Thanks for hooking me up. :)...
I didn't spend hours & hours looking, but, including the PAS site, what I could readily find of Medieval rings, they don't look like that one, nor...
Hey, good call on the lid. @aaroncab What's your new avatar? Looks like my kind of thing.
Invented before they figured out piercing works better with a pointed tip.
I'm not convinced that ring is any earlier than Renaissance. If it is iron, it could have become pretty encrusted in a few hundred years or less.
I did not look at the cuff bracelet earlier. Definitely the same scene, so there's a painting or relief out there somewhere it has been taken from.
Correction: credit where credit is due, it was 2manybooks who introduced that term.
You have to ignore the deeper lines flying off & under the belly & focus on the shallower impression. Head is on the left, legs sort of...
I think you are absolutely right. Well spotted! Horse courrant is a term Fid gave us for another one.
I can see Aaron's horse, I can't see your knight. Which way up is the right way up?
In my experience, it's the rare screw back earring that does not eventually fall off your ear. Although, how did both get broken? You wouldn't...
Staying out of this. What's done is done. Branvan, even if you are not interested in the academic/historical value, it will enhance what it can...
It looks more like iron to me. Can't decipher the device, but it looks, to me, most like something coherent this way up: [ATTACH]
Doesn't X stand for the unknown quantity? We may never know.
If the pieces still mate cleanly, can't think why a super glue type adhesive, sparingly applied, would not do the trick. I have glued stone...
Trying to see if I can get the pic to show: [ATTACH]
The figure is so outstandingly homely, had to wonder if it's a portrait of a real person, not a fantasy female. Famous men are not uncommon in...
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