No this thread introduced me to her. My observations are that: the colors of your piece are much paler than others I saw browsing through search...
Some of it resembles 'Speed Writing'.
The critter looks more like a llama or alpaca to me.
I think it's an abbreviated, aide memoire, ritual book with the arrows indicating directions to face or turn, etc. & abbreviations of the wording....
I have known native New Yorkers to make the same error. Nearly played havoc one time when I was trying to settle on a place to meet with someone...
She's the only piece for which I have the original fitted box. She lives like a queen in blue velvet.
What did you scratch with? My gem book says jadeite is 6.5 - 7 on the Moh's scale & nephrite is 6 - 6.5.
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I got to see these gems when they were available for inspection ahead of the sale & held the first one shown in my hand because the jasper was one...
Think yours is meant to mimic jade, also used by these cultures.
That is the web site of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), not MMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art....
He looks like many other men of his time. That is a seriously high end setting, similar to ones I've seen used for Louis Zoellner's work.
I only looked closely at a few of the things that come up first, but they all look more like the sort of thing the American Museum of Natural...
[IMG] Looks like this one is called 'Edna's Music', & this one is 'A Symphony of Art': [IMG]
The writing below the line is probably the number 45, but I don't know what this signifies. Could be a model number.
I can too, but it would be clearly marked if it had been. Egyptian inspired is probably the correct description, not Egyptian repro nor Egyptian...
Surprised I missed them. They would make for an interesting collection.
I always hate saying what something is not when I can't say what it is, but pretty sure your lovely, luminous cups are not any type of jade. Jade...
What a haul! Love the hatpin holder, even if it is a repro. The shell cameo looks like quite a nice one. White gold? To be clear, the black &...
I use Domenichino's 'Borghese' Cumaean Sibyl as the avatar of my web site: [IMG]
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