[IMG] [IMG] Yours is not compressed horizontally, just cropped at either end. It's this one that has been spread out & had another wreath...
I have no idea why the author of the Templetown article thought Flora was involved unless at the time of writing the Met had it identified that...
This is a pdf I found in connection with another spoon inquiry. It gives terminology for bowl & handle shapes, a whole wealth of stuff:...
I was going to reply that MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) doesn't know the first thing about neoclassical art & that it was surprising for them to...
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There's also just the general style of it:...
I don't have any jet jewellery such as a bracelet or necklace, but do have a couple of cameos that are in jet settings & they really could pass...
While the article labels that first illustration as Sacrifice to Flora, no such composition is mentioned in the text, while Offering to Peace &...
Wonder why the composition was altered so that lady third from left has her hand behind the figure to her right, hiding the wreath in the original?
Wedgwood used a mix of figures & scenes, some copied directly from engraved gems & other original compositions in neoclassical style. They also...
Oh good, you got there on your own. I was going to say it looks like the kind of neoclassical mishmash Wedgwood puts on its Jasper Ware, but...
I don't really see evidence of any parts being faux jet, but gutta percha & proprietary substances such as Vulcanite used to be used to mimic jet....
If you have something that will do the job with a really thin layer of adhesive & that is not going to discolor with time, I'd glue it. Seems...
It's possible not all elements are the same material; could be a mix of glass & jet or jet simulants.
It is an older style clasp & looks a bit feeble for what I imagine the weight of the necklace to be if glass (not jet?) but could be original....
Toggle clasp is also available at your friendly neighborhood beading supply shop. Haven't bought one in at least 10 years, but they were not more...
Was your mom a craft show shopper? When I see something that would be within my limited skills to make with a price tag like that, crafts fair...
This is being sold as Heubach & also has only a number impressed on the back: [IMG] The detail on yours is so much better.
Wolber seems to have made a specialty of grave monuments. Plaque could be based on one of those. Figure could be simply allegorical, e.g., Old Age.
Italian glass micromosaic.
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