Hello, Plumfriend. Could you go back & edit your post to make your photo full size so we can see it more easily? Hit the little word edit under...
Isn't the glass of your piece a different pattern than the Snead bucket? I'm going nuts scrolling up & down, but see sort of a grapes/fruit motif...
These 2 are described as being in their original frames. The site gives you the names of the paintings:...
Another region where there is a huge business in fake antiquities. I was writing more, but Walter's note makes it unnecessary.
Not everything that is in the style of a much earlier time & has the look of great age is what it appears to be. Are you located in or near...
Based on absolutely nothing, I think you should leave them together. To my mind they have more interest as a little collection and in context....
Are you certain it is genuinely from the first century? How do you know? The antiquities market is filled with fakes; you have to be very careful.
There is lots of stuff on the Internet about well known artists; a search produces a ton of results for someone like Michelangelo. When you...
Yes, that is nice & clear. Sorry for making so much work for you. I edited post 15 & added the relevant photo. Asking about a different bit.
OK. After also gluing the upright of stand so it can no longer swivel in the base, finally got a good picture, using Camera & PhotoPaint, not the...
I had a Portieux Vallerysthal reaction to it at first sight, but wrong, wrong, wrong.
:joyful::joyful::joyful::joyful: Maybe you should stick to using 'rocks' when you can. Or really confuse people by saying things like: Careful!...
Yes, good thought, although I see so many more cameos than strands of helmet shell beads, they can't have been using all the leftovers that way.
Maybe they were using the brand name as a generic for watercolor paper, the way we use Kleenex as a common noun for 'facial tissue'. They did not...
Looking again, think I figured it out: it is the whole contraption that moves forward/back or side to side, no?
Is the match for this screw lost or is the only one from the beginning? What is it holding/what is allowed to move if it is loosened? Edit: Duh....
On the Italian train of thought, aventurine feldspar was first identified & named in Italy. Think I read somewhere that it was given the name...
You raise an interesting question: what did cameo workshops do with the remains of all the shells they used? Did they find a use for them?...
Wrong growth pattern. Although it can be the color of the stone in the pendant, shell is very orderly & does not have flecks. Not as red, but...
Motion is hard to put into words. I can't picture what this means. The dark colored upper piece moves to & from where? In what direction...
Separate names with a comma.
