The placement of the words suggests they are the names of the figures, but you have not shown them well & 2 of them not in closeup at all, so our...
With the new pix I see she is wearing an animal pelt like a bacchante, has a strap, as you observed, running diagonally across her torso as though...
Welcome, Gladys. Guessing you are having trouble uploading photos. Most newcomers do, if they take their photos with a phone. File size has to...
I think you have seen that episode of Scooby-Doo a number of times.
One of the results in an auction platform's alerts:...
A monstrance? A bit too neoclassical for that I suppose.
Cameo is 1920s-30s probably, given that we know some of the provenance & the degree of wear. Neapolitan cameo cutters exported tons of these & no...
They look like ivory to me. Think the scoring on the soles of the feet is tool work obscuring the natural grain lines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanetsuki
There is a sort of racket game played by Japanese girls that uses these paddle-like things.
This is an instructive find, if it has been dated correctly. The helmet shell cameo of the pretty lady type is so eroded & so common across a...
Seller describes it as neoclassical 17th century. It is not neoclassical in style; I think they are correct that it is 17th or very early 18th,...
And going by info at web site, OP's uncertainty about the material suggests this is one of their earlier wood pulp pieces. The problem with being...
That was my first thought too, but doubted my judgment because he is not wearing nautical attire. How interesting that this was/is a folk art...
It's the sort of thing I like. The stone is quite an old one, although I can't say whether it is actually an antiquity. It is no doubt copied...
I'm turning the color of angelskin coral. Thanks for the kind words. :shame:
Not selling, adding to my little horde. Thank you for clearing up what they are, as always! Teaching people how to tell coral from conch shell...
Doesn't the 'manhole cover' have the remains of nails at the 4 corners, the exposed part of the nails have broken off the back? Can't think why...
I'm inclined to BEY since the last letter, unlike the first 2, would have to be lower case to be an R, although certainly not impossible that it...
@BMRT The mano fico is coral in a shade I would call angelskin. The cameo earrings are also coral & some would say angelskin because they are not...
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