I was thinking of this. Hope link works. Takes some time to load....
The sugar bowl (?) is a gorgeous thing. Thanks for describing the different acid test outcomes. I once bought one of those little acid test...
I don't know anything about it except I want it. Love the sphinxes flanking the mirror. Are there any secret compartments?
Even if there was a sitter, think it would have been for a model, not with the intent of producing a portrait likeness. I still think this is a...
Wouldn't be the least surprised. This virus seems to find tissues it can invade all over the body, not just the lungs. Oh boy. If we're relying...
Since Expositions Universelles is in the plural, I think they're giving results of several different events. They have a medaille d'or & a grand...
I was just misreading the squiggle (to my untrained eye) as a slightly weird 3. If I had known that 84 was a standard fineness for Persia, no...
Is it lined with glass?
She's lovely. Sort of a transitional type I think: not a portrait; not quite a conventional Flora. There was definitely a period when it was a...
I note the fasces, symbol of strength in unity as well as legal power, is coming unbound, so perhaps a symbolic representation of the fall of Rome.
Now you're in territory where I cannot guide you. Did she travel?
You could use it as a mushroom brush.
Does the test you use pick up silver that is less than sterling? One of the marks in the closeup of the set of 3 looks like it could say 83 (830...
The symbols of Imperial Rome with something like a jackal snapping at them. The eagle is Jupiter's bird; the device on the shield is his thunder...
Maybe it was bought when she was born, to be given to her when she turned 18, something that way. This is not a guardian angel cameo, but may...
Eckard, maybe?
I have seen winners of an exhibition prize also incorporate that info as part of their branding on future products, not necessarily the prize...
I read it as Brad reads it, as an allegorical composition celebrating science & industry, with presumably medicine above all. Confusion over the...
As much as I like the idea of a via Connolli, it is more likely to have been the via Condotti, where a number of cameo cutters had their studios,...
Hello, AbbyRose. What a lovely thing to have handed down to you, all the more special for the family connection. As usual, AJ is spot on, this...
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