LOVE the poppies.
Any connection to this Ferrers? I have a cameo of his widow, Mary Meredith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Shirley,_4th_Earl_Ferrers
I'm not feeling comfortable with my original assessment. It was based on the second photo, which gave me, in the wee hours of the morning, the...
A UV light will quickly answer that question.
'Chryselephantine.'
Took the paint off the handles too, looks like.
Hand held yarn winder?
It appears to be hardstone (agate).
Thorvaldsen: Cupid shows Venus his bee-stung finger. [ATTACH] You can see the bee above the roses. Supposedly she is less than sympathetic,...
Yes, real deco. I love this look. Bet this one would run just fine after a tune up.
It is standard practice to make brooches convenient for the right-handed to put on by themselves. When looking at the back, the hinge should be...
Decay & the resultant gas that blows the eggshell apart only take place if some little organism that breaks down the material gets inside. Your...
Others I have seen & one my family had for many years had the contents blown out. In yours the contents have desicated. Eggshell is porous. No...
Think this one stays on by pinning to the top of the head rather than encircling it.
It looks fine to me. I have seen many ill-fitting cameos set in jet. I have the impression that the jet frames were manufactured separately in...
Peacocks are Juno/Hera's bird, but this is not a conventional depiction of that regal goddess.
Think it says 925.
Wedgwood calls them cameos & there is no reason to think of them as any less cameos than we do of glass cameos. The modeler of this one decided...
Thanks for letting us know the outcome of the auction. It's really hard to know how to think about these. Compared to collections of Wedgwood...
Great photos. You can see that it's really a double lever system (who thought of this?) Pushing the top lever down pushes down the top end of...
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