Suspect the chain never had to bear the weight of the skirt, that it is just to keep the gizmo attached to your costume when not in use. Think...
Collecting dust?? Lovely though, & I don't often like this sort of thing. Astonishing it is in such good shape.
SBSVC beat me to it but, yep: https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2008-10-11-20 I found it right away following suspicion that it was a...
Suspect some non-Tiffany shades of this type have been represented as favrile glass.
I don't know about stoneware either. I just get curious & start Googling. Weird you can get the Dorchester Pottery, or you can get L & B G Chace...
Does this readily come apart into 2 pieces? If so, could we see it separated that way? Emphasis on readily.
Think The Velveteen Rabbit and the Skin Horse. Always wondered what the skin horse was. Think now I know.
As I recall, this look was called, appropriately, 'distressed'. Now seen as just distressing!
I looked for 'engagement ring guard' & also got many results for similar contraptions. One example:...
Here's a Khumalo: http://www.artnet.com/artists/vusi-khumalo/
Billy, are the glints AJ is noting in the photos caused by inclusions or are they a lighting artifact caused by the light hitting imperfections in...
What is it like on the inside?
Well, what they say about two heads is not that they cost you twice as much in hats. :happy:
You could make a pilgrimage here: https://www.bronners.com/ if you don't mind that they seem to be making a point of putting Christ back into...
Could be an aquamarine/beryl, but not gem quality.
I've heard of literary lions... Cluttered spotted the chip a little while ago:
I'm liking the smelling salts hypothesis after looking through these: http://antiquebottlehunter.com/salts.html Had thought maybe the mouth was...
He has an especially lean & hungry look compared to others that are similar, but no stripes?...
Obviously now you need the chair.
Wonder if it could have been part of a set for traveling, this sort of thing:...
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