I have a Walter Lampl brooch in sterling with an amethyst carved as a plum (which looks similar to this) & it is very pretty. On the peach/plum...
She's closer in time,I think, more late 19th - early 20th. I put a photo of the young Victoria on this Pinterest board for comparison with cameo...
Not as silly at home as you will at a flea market, charity shop, etc., doing it furtively.
We never knew my grandmother to wear the strand of pearls my mother wanted so badly. Their existence was known because she is wearing them in...
Welcome, Frances. Kyratango has already nailed it. If my grandfather had not given them to her, I think my mother was ready to do murder for her...
The one that has lost a section of the background is Flora, cut in helmet shell, which can develop fine cracks over time from dryness & pressure...
The blue-green beads are green aventurine quartz.
Yes, or maybe plum. Fruit anyway, not a pod.
From the name, looks like the use would be as a fire starter, so maybe match striker?
You will have to show me because I don't know what this means. We're not talking about a brooch, are we?
There's no question here about the age of Rick's piece. It may qualify as vintage, it's not an antique & most certainly not an antiquity. At...
Think it is even more accurately a sculpture based on an ancient Jewish vase.
It's the original vase that is ancient; the art work based on it is not.
I wondered; it didn't quite look like Hebrew to me, but not like anything else either. And nothing else makes any sense. Ancient vase, ancient...
https://museum.imj.org.il/artcenter/newsite/en/?artist=Amir,%20Arie%20(2)
Description for piece scouts found, which would be better titled Model of an Ancient Vase, says it has the word Israel on it.
See label on back in pic added to the top of the post.
Misspelling the first name was always going to be a handicap to successful searching.
Hello, Rick. Presumably it is bronze, the writing in Hebrew. We have some members who may be able to help, for instance @komokwa
Arye Amyr sounded more Israeli to me & led to this: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/12950067_7-arye-amyr-20th-century-israeli-six
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