Schreger lines are found on cross sections, often the rounded carved parts. So if this is elephant or mammoth ivory there are plenty of parts...
...mammal ivory...an' the ends are fully carved, so won't yield the schreger lines necessary for elephant source. I'll snap a few more pics,...
I'm not seeing schreger lines so it may not be ivory. I also don't see the speckles you usally see in bone. The faces just don't look Inuit or...
:playful: I'm not seeing Schreger lines though, only striations.;) Schreger lines are cross-hatched lines.
I think you're seeing Schrager lines the same way I'm seeing bubbles.
You would only see Schreger lines on rounded areas like the shoulders and possibly the hat, both of which are too decorated to see. I do see faint...
The set is much older then that. My Grandmother only left the states once since she left Hungary and came here in Jan 1944 before the Germans...
Bone does not have Schreger lines. They are some form of ivory. Most likely elephant not mammoth. Doesn't look like enough patina on them to be to...
Does bone have those criss cross lines. I never heard of Schreger lines but have since read that they are very hard to see and they are not everywhere
...exposed bases. The white and dark color pieces. It appears those cross grain Schreger lines on the exposed bases but I am no expert. What you think
Unusual, more likely French or English, I would think, rather than seller's description as Italian. Really good example of Schreger lines.
Schrodinger's lines -- they could be there and they could not be there...:D
You...or the lighter? I was hoping that would be corrected...
The lines in ivory are Schreger, not shcrodinger. ;)
Well thanks you're all too kind haha, I do enjoy it, though I do wish some items would leave my house as quickly as they seem to be entering!...
...cut, with the grain or cross grain. The pendant has been cut with the grain. The oft-mentioned Schreger lines only appear on cross cut sections.
...between the lines and the 'background'. Then there are of course Schreger lines, the famous cross hatching, but that is only seen on rounded...
I would love for the purple to be older, that would be just the icing on the cake. Definitely agreed as to the silver bracelet, it was more of a...
...of her painting on the left side. A loupe is good to catch the Schreger lines and to see the edges of the substrate. Sometimes they would pad...
He is charming, Marko. I saw these "netsuke" necklaces when I was in New York in the early 80s, so it could date from then. Many people didn't...
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