By knowing myself. :)
[IMG] Jewellery with seed pearls & tiny turquoise cabochons was very popular in the Georgian period, but this feels newer than that.
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Because people can be seduced by pretty things?
This is a sweet piece. The cameo looks like a Wedgwood-type of jasper ware pottery, and the description of it as 'paste' would refer to the...
"Natural material' means they hope it is turquoise, although aren't confident enough to out & out assert it, but are hoping bidders will make the...
It actually reminds me of this sort of thing, with devotional pictures substituted for the grandkids:...
Thank you, Madame, for sorting me out. I have no doubt the knowledge will serve me another time. :)
No, someone doing similar subjects in a similar style. As I mentioned, Clodion himself did not originate the style. See, for example:...
My personal philosophy is don't sink money you can't afford to lose into something that requires specialty knowledge to evaluate properly, unless...
The top one is the Cloisters. Do you have an ID on the church?
Think the suggestion here would be that the boys are as unruly as the goat.
S. Bazin?
And clean her; she's pretty grimy. Soap, water & a soft toothbrush will do it.
Post war 40s or 1950s most likely & set in Italy, so probably 800 silver. Many cameos that do not hold up well when highly magnified still look...
It looks as though at least 2 of the putti are wearing armbands with bells, a distinctive feature.
'Clodion', the name used by the artist Claude Michel, did numerous versions of putti playing with a goat & little goat-footed baby satyrs playing...
It's so improbable looking, it's possibly anything.
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