I'm getting a repetitive motion pain in my right forefinger!
Good find, but definitely not our guy. This is a rather primitive painting commissioned as an ex-voto, an offering in thanks or supplication:...
An ending in 'uroff' also seems in the realm of phonetic possibility. He makes his lower case Us very distinctively, as 2 vertical strokes with...
Copying this over to this page so don't have to do quite so much scrolling back & forth. [IMG]
If unglazed, is it just pottery, clay (which is what I imagine Nabz intended with 'soil')?
If you're using Google, go to Tools, select Advanced Search, then put luisa in the field for none of these words.
Yep. It is a mouse isn't it, not a cat?
What tends to turn up in searches are collectors' specimens. Not at all saying this is what yours is, & yours has more than 3 minerals included,...
It's what geologists would call a rock: a mix of different minerals. Some of it is probably malachite. Could you back off & take a photo of a...
This is something like your egg & think mark is the same? https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/84-silver-gold-plated-russian-mini-455264023 [IMG]
84 could be Russian mark.
Initials could be AV.
Interesting choice to have the sitter look at the viewer rather than straight ahead of himself: [ATTACH]
There are a number of people named Louis Capolino, so a working surname, but our name looks like there's another letter before the L.
I do this too: run proposed readings through Google just to see if anyone, anywhere, anytime had that name. I've got that going with the cameo...
Août is indeed French for August, so turns that line into a date & gives a clue about the painter. 'Pinxit' was the going thing to indicate...
Or maybe ends 'lino', which sounds more Italian. Or 'linoff'.
Everything about it puzzles me: the shade; the evenness of the color; the surface texture; the way each panel is a single piece of stone. Ceramic...
Full size, please. :) [IMG]
Once I add 'hooded' as a search term, I get only sweatshirts, so sweater is out of the ordinary.
Separate names with a comma.
