A hazard of developing your eye & knowledge. Some 'treasures' become less than exciting. :)
@808 raver What's the attribution on the frame in post #11? You probably told us before, or maybe you've told us somewhere here & I'm looking...
I think you're right. Someone was playing.
I'd be inclined to call it bamboo coral, although don't know that's a type of coral as much as a way of cutting it. All sorts of beads are coming...
The 2 odd beads look like early artificial amber.
Unusual, I'll say that for them. I don't think they are actual Wedgwood. Is the necklace pendant definitely a jasper ware plaque held under a...
[ATTACH] Looks like Raphael at the top of the frame.
I often find the answer to a question I've abandoned as hopeless when looking for something else altogether. [ATTACH]
The translation, as I recall it, is accurate.
These touches catch my eye as an unusual characteristic: [ATTACH]
Boy, does she ever! :)
I don't suppose the indentation with the dots constitutes a mark of some kind? [ATTACH]
How is the stippled effect on the uncarved areas achieved? This carver has a distinctive way of making bird wings, with what I'm calling a notch....
Here's the disclaimer on another listing for a small framed painting on ivory: In accordance with eBay rules I guarantee that the paper thin...
Maybe I just wasn't seeing them, but seems only recently that I have been seeing ivory openly offered on eBay, like the inlaid clock in earlier...
He was channeling Georgia O'Keeffe? I was seeing drill holes too, but no evidence of them elsewhere, so standing by the grunge hypothesis.
Can see why you considered Arabic: left hand mark in first pic resembles an Arabic 18.
Would be hard to do. Trying to imagine it without the black spots. They may just be accumulated grunge caught in deep places & distorting our...
I have taken the 'maybe it will be better than photos show' gamble & been right more often than not. I don't venture too much when uncertain....
That's it exactly. Critter on the other corner appears to be aquiline, again with horns. Does your Medusa have horns? Sometimes I see her with,...
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