Wow! I am overwhelmed. So many excellent responses! Thank you, everyone. Now how do I give "best answer" to multiple replies?
Thank you for all the information. I did not know about the fractional number patterns. I have wondered what the numbers on the verso were. I...
Thank you very much! I appreciate expertise.
Thank you! You nailed it!
I agree. I don't think the seller was trying to hide anything, but that s/he was documenting the fruits of his/her knowledge/research....
Make mine Darjeeling, but not in that cup. (I use a large two-cupper mug.)
I think this is the oldest item from my mother’s Coalport collection, but I wondered if someone can confirm the date (or disagree with it), name...
They need ART restorers/conservatorsto do the work. This is a significant art historical, as well as devotional, work of art by Luisa Roldán (La...
I think it may be I.O.D.E. International Order of D... E... . Thanks to Google, I may have found it: International Order of the Daughters of...
Roseville Pottery--good Ohio finds! "Knottsville, TN" confused me. Did someone not know how to spell Knoxville or is Knottsville a small town...
The mirror reflecting the woman as a skeleton is a modern version of the late medieval/Renaissance theme combining vanitas with death imagery, a...
The perforations make me think it could be a tea strainer.
An engraving would have embossing from the edges of the plate. Look for that. A photographic reproduction would have a flat surface.
Except we have NO images of Gertrude from the 13th century. I have been searching the web and the earliest I could find were 17th century. Not...
Here is another St Gertrude with the buttoned sleeves, heart (enclosing infant Christ), and crosier instead of staff: Dallas Museum of Art,...
This is wonderful. While I'm obsessing about buttoned sleeves you discovered some real pictorial evidence. It may be that the buttoned sleeves...
The tight, white buttoned sleeves are plaguing me. Most nuns' habits that I recognize have full, loose sleeves. But habits do change over time,...
Another possiblity. But the saint's habit does not look Dominican to me. Dominicans wear a white tunic & white scapular with a black cappa...
Your pictures are fuzzy, but it looks like a repro to me--the text directly under the image (where the the artist's signature & title often are,...
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