It's definitely true that the more of them you see, the more you appreciate them as a separate species, although quite wonderful in their own way....
The Poniatowski gems look so much like each other & so little like gems from the Classical period, it is hard to imagine, at a time when there...
There's something amusing about dovetails on furniture covered in bats.
I looked them up because they were new names for me. They brought me to Hunt & Roskell and Morel Ladeuil, which brought me to this example (I had...
When applied to furniture, seems sometimes to be synonymous with 'rustic'.
E.g., https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?item=123968023387&hash=item1cdd11eb5b%3Ag%3AFrsAAOSwtYJdRk3V&_ssn=old.rings&_sop=16
Cupid (bird wings) & Psyche (butterfly wings) kissing at the top. [IMG] Bouguereau. Not knowing technical terms like 'strut', I'd search for...
No reason to think not. Everything about it is consistent with contemporary Italian factory made jewellery.
Not an unreasonable guess born of idleness. Alexander is on a number of Bactrian coins & many intaglios are copies of coin images. He's a...
Seems Murcia is 'the Mecca of Graffiti': https://www.laverdad.es/murcia/ciudad-murcia/paseo-museo-aire-20171127223419-nt.html
Wonder if 'Murcia' is a self-portrait.
Reasonable question I cannot answer. Is there any reason to think OP is a second? A cobalt controlled bubble vase I have was the only one like...
My kind, Baryshnikov in Balanchine's Union Jack: [IMG]
Agree it is attractive & desirable but think not Eickholt. (Hate saying what I think something is not when I can't say what it is.) To say...
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/46FC0DC4-F2AF-485A-BEC2-6A56CEC86AD6 [IMG]
Mat is correct: it is the goddess Athena/Minerva. The braids, which you would see are tied beneath her chin if the image extended down farther,...
Maybe Lyons Map Company would be more successful?
I see the little beads/bumps that suggest a molded material, but in most ways she looks like shell to me. Are you sure she's not? No one in...
This will be Diana & her maidens running down Actaeon, although Diana herself seems to be having technical difficulties with her bow. Yes, paste....
Is the necklace light enough in weight to be jet? If you live at Downton Abbey, you wear it draped around your neck with the bobbles hanging down...
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