Hopefully most jewellers are like the one I use & will take a magnified look and give you a pronouncement of diamond or glass for free. If the...
Just what birthday message do you suppose this mother was trying to send her daughter? Not my idea of how to express 'Many Happy Returns'!
I heartily endorse, both parts.
Besides, the scene is set in mythological time; historical standards do not apply. And how many times have you seen the Virgin Mary wearing...
You're another one who needs to suspend disbelief! :)
Bone has that rougher grain, which enlarging the pic of the ladle handle revealed, but when you say ivory is usually very 'clean and crisp', I'm...
[ATTACH] However, the singer of The Song is pretty clearly the laureate Sappho again. I think what we are seeing is her kithara, edge on:...
Love it in its own right, but it is also perfect for this or any other work in this genre. Glad you got better advice than mine concerning...
Ahh. Makes sense. Post adds a mark we haven't IDed to the collection.
Hello, Mary Jane. Unless you yourself found it in a cave, this sounds very improbable, & it certainly doesn't look like it ever spent any amount...
I thought it was possible too. I'm not sure what this means? Schreger lines only show where ivory has been cut across the grain; if ivory, this...
Another Prof. http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/19th-20th-century-sculpture-l18230/lot.37.html signed: Call - Prof. APetrilli...
Umberto Stiaccini also did lamps. I feel I have seen 'La Perla' before & suspect it was somewhere here....
OK, now I'm utterly lost.
This one is too hilarious. Another Florentine sculptor: [IMG]...
I'm not even going to attempt these comparisons without more info from OP. Already dizzy. Never mind. :)
I know. It happens all the time that I think I've thoroughly reviewed posts from time period I was off the site, only to find something a week or...
That it is Psyche: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/minor-gods/psyche and Czech glass. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I don't know what the story is in either case, but one of the Roman cameo cutters I knew simply as Filippo Tignani, becomes Prof. Tignani in...
[ATTACH] Pretty sure that is OP's. Glyphs.
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