I'm off on my own thing here. The companion piece to Pandora is Psyche, also by Carrier de Belleuse: [IMG] She is pouring oil into a small lamp...
The Capitoline Cupid & Psyche sits on a round base: [IMG] The shape of the base on OP's seems to be specific to Minton. It may not have been...
I'm staying out of the Minton/not Minton fray. I was brought in for the subjects & only said: The little monograph I have on Parian says that...
Most people here, myself among them, would say you are double-bleeping amazing in the research you do.
Cupid & Psyche. Other is either Psyche about to open the box containing some of Proserpina's beauty, which she has been told not to open, or...
The difference a good photo can make. Three years ago this cameo sold as part of an 8 cameo lot that went for about $2,950, with buyer's premium....
@Jackie Williams Hope you looked at the site enough before signing up to know that such digressions are just our way of doing things. Our...
Some couples leave it at writing their own vows. Too funny. Feel like I've seen a photo before, maybe Pinterest, without an explanation.
It's a panther carved by someone who would never have seen one & may have thought the coat was more like a goat's since goats also frequently...
They are putti, playing at the Triumph of Dionysus, the sort of scene beloved of the 17th century ivory carvers. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The figures...
These clutches with the plastic disk slide onto the earring post more like the clutch on a stick pin. The disk behind the earlobe keeps heavier...
I'm so glad you replied this long after the thread first posted because somehow I never saw that Craig had produce the promised video & probably...
I don't really think the mark has to do with the nature of the stone, but do suspect they are CZ. It has a higher refractive index than diamond,...
I suspect it has to do with cubic zirconia.
This one is also suspect: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/61521550_cameo-collection-21-pieces [ATTACH] There are 21 cameos; the...
I had to check for myself, but now I think I remember pointing it out to some other people at the time. It started at $1, had only 1 watcher,...
It's a prayer book & hymnal. There would be so many, whether this particular publication or others with the same content, both older & newer, the...
And that link includes this one, which tells you a bit about Kalderon: http://israeliceramics.blogspot.com/2011/08/david-kalderon.html I own a...
David Kalderon (signs K D).
Presumably reading a religious text, with a Torah scroll in the crook of his arm, so maybe a priest named in the Bible. As for maker...? But if...
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