If Antiquers is a brain, you are the frontal cortex! I don't think Deep Blue could do it any faster. Definitely the Felger mark. I wasn't sure...
It would be helpful just to have the mark deciphered so I could do the research myself. And, of course, if anyone recognizes it, well, the...
Good possibility. Definitely not ivory. How big is it?
All the pieces look like resin to me. 'Signatures' may not mean much. Chinese carvers are very busy replicating Japanese designs & signing...
Except if the leaf were the cowrie snail, it would be completely outside its shell.
Have been busy elsewhere, so just seeing this. Concur with Debora: god Mars/Ares. Sphinx on helmet; gorgoneion (Medusa head) on aegis; lion on...
Looks like a plum or peach to me.
Part of your answer may be here:...
If the second word is 'Apolda', that would put them to Germany.
http://www.vendio.com/stores/stantonsburgantiques1/item/furniture-1900-1950/spectacular-antique-empire-tig/lid=34641067
There is some similarity to this: https://www.harpgallery.com/shop/item26445.html
It would be so great if the Paris expositions were documented at this level of detail, at least the groups for the fine & decorative arts. In...
Chasing butterflies with nets?
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Sounds like it's you in a glass case. Can we call you Rev. Ralph?
Think there may be other volumes out there like this one, where Britain prepared its own mini-catalogue for their Paris exhibitors only. This one...
Holly L Ma__?
Are you going to tell us? :happy:
There are so many cognates, you can get the gist of what each entrant had to show much of the time. This seems to be the 1867 catalogue as it was...
Here's 1867, with some pictures: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t9380k348;view=1up;seq=16
Separate names with a comma.
