In the mid-60s, my mother bought an eclectic group of pieces to hang over the living room sofa. One of them was L'Innocent Badinage, in that same...
A note on 1stdibs: everything is expensive; not everything is correctly described or appropriately priced.
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/asian-art-furniture/ceramics/chinese-export-ceramic-low-stand-hand-painted-rose-medallion-circa-1900/id-f_12270111/
Remind me never to try to make a living as a diamond photographer. Took a stab at capturing the effect of the UV light on the one diamond. My...
Those overlong pin stems would have let you bury the end back into the fabric as a safety measure; better ones had guard chains as well. The...
But historians love this kind of thing as primary sources.
With special dispensation from the Pope. That caught my attention too. The cameo is inscribed on the front: M. Beat. Vit. History is not my...
This is a stretch of logic, but, maybe this is a clue they were made in Occupied Japan? It seems natural that much of Japan's durable export...
Looks like you got some chips off the old blocks. I agree with kyra, basically a dendritic agate-type stone, especially in the center, with some...
Is it heavy enough to be a paperweight? Think it's decor, no lock required.
In the weird way of the world, before this thread, I had never heard of Henri, Count of Chambord. Today I am holding on to a cameo portrait of...
Ah, now I think I see what you are seeing, but it only reads as 710 if you assume the mark is the right way up in the photo & that there is a...
Brava, Giulissa! You are now a perfect poster. :happy: I suggested before that maybe this would be Bavarian china, but now wonder if it is...
Wonder what Mitch Ryder is doing these days, says another Motor City refugee. [MEDIA] [MEDIA]
That's why it's all marked down.
Any mark on the caster wheel is likely to relate to the maker of the casters rather than the funiture maker.
How many lead atoms could the crystal lose before it would also be altered in some way? I remember when the issue was lead pewter.
A suggestion about that was made here: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/skeleton-key.32912/#post-435430
See: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/decanter-question.32865/page-2#post-435664 Posts 26 & 28.
It's very odd. Have not seen other Egyptian jewellery remotely like it. Maybe because I just know what turns up on eBay, & most of that is...
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