Starting to sense there's a 'type' here in some way, when it comes to material & subject matter, so probably also location & time period: [IMG]...
Sounds like a place for unmarried men or men working away from home. The 'risqué' cartoon on the back would have encouraged them to save the...
It was a favorite saying of my mother's too. Or, as another saying goes, when in Rome, caveat emptor. Apart from knowing that they did make...
It is a very bad assumption. My specialty is cameos, which are like little works of art. It is quite common to find excellent work in cheap...
The publication where INH found the advertisement for Ph. Cerisier is from 1905, so that gives a little idea of time period. The absence of a...
I considered that it might be 'Henriette' Glorie, but did not advance the search any.
I do not know what to make of this: [ATTACH] Description does not say what it is, guessing wax, but of whom? The Duchess in Alice in...
An experiment: [ATTACH] Or maybe not. [ATTACH] This thread & the related one about cameo signatures are as good as anything you will find....
I don't have much more idea of what's going on in this Lamant. Three mortal women carrying baskets of fruit/flowers, probably meant as offerings...
Think the auctioneer is in England; cameo undoubtedly from Italy. Not sure whether those belong on the head of the standing figure or are part of...
[IMG] Not. A. Clue.
Also seems to have dropped one of the babies! :nailbiting:
Much higher quality of execution than is common these days, although I can't help feeling it's a cry for help!
Muse of horror films?
The shell cameo is Thorvaldsen's Night, sort of: https://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=night [IMG] The figure in the...
Or maybe for salt? It's small even by comparison with the sugar tongs, so perhaps too small for a mustard pot?
I like the itty-bitty spoon/ladle. Mustard?
The orientation of the pin on the back of the golfer is odd: usually, when the pin stem is mounted vertically, the hinge would be at the top & the...
So, you challenged someone to tell you what it was called, & if they said Clicket Cricker, they were foe?
For anyone not quite following, the Thorvaldsen relief is Ganymede & Cupid playing knucklebones. It came up as a possibility for this scene back...
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