Yeah, I don't do meek all that well. :smug:
OK, did the deed. Is this meek & polite enough? Are you confident the cameo is hardstone? The one in the pic attached is glass, probably...
I have no intention of bidding, so no personal stake in it, other than the damage fakes do to the value of the genuine pieces they mimic, hence...
I don't care that much if they question my judgment. I just chuckle to myself in the knowledge that curators at the Met, the V@A, & the British...
Mousuroboros?
I only sometimes police my highly-specialized little sliver of it. As primarily a collector/buyer, my sympathies tend to lie the other way. I...
As I was spinning my thread, it occurred to me I could send them a message with the pic of the glass one attached & ask if they were confident...
You can readily get some info on line by searching for 'Japanese artist Bizan'. That's what most of us run off & do. :happy:
Lovely & interesting. What does it look like inside the flower?
Yes.
Giclée, maybe? Just tossing out the only word I know that might be relevant. :happy:
Sorry, don't know, but neither does Hill Auction Gallery, who are selling one like it.
Welcome Reeves. Think everyone here would agree these two things are not mutually exclusive. Someone may come along who can tell you what it...
This is a follow on to the discussion that got going in the thread on where to find overlooked goodies at bargain prices about when and whether to...
Hello, Boo. A boot sale moocher- yeah, you're one of us. :happy:
It does not look to me like a cruet at all, unless they're making them with 3 spouts.
I would have 'needed' this too. Love Buster Brown & Tige. Does you shoe have a boy inside? What a funny place for a boy to hide. Does your shoe...
Bronwen has no idea who she is. Not religious, classical mythology, possibly allegorical, the personification of something. Her head wear, &...
The repeating frieze around the sides has echoes of the 'geranomachy': [ATTACH]
Wearing winklepicker boots?
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