Genever, rather than gin. Absolutely typical shape. Some Portuguese wine is sold in stoneware bottles, still.
Most welcome. It’s good useful stuff.m
It’s not black dot. As aj says, the dots are clear and distinct, and I don’t see them on that close up. The idea was to draw the eye into the...
They did a whole range of “oriental” style pieces. I think this is based on one of the Japanese ghost gods.
Cerium oxide paste.
Too right!
I think rubies, they’re pinky.
Hm. I’m not seeing black dot, but it can be a mare to photograph. Can you see an actual distinct black dot on the culet?
If you’ve the patience, I’d say the nail varnish route.
Thirded on raw malachite.
Foreign? We ain’t foreign. ;) That flower painting is very good quality. Gloriously OTT.
I think remains of a sixties price label. I also think possibly Spanish, a Valencia maker.
Made in Egypt, almost certainly. Hard to date, they’ve been made since ancient times. I suspect yours is nineteenth, given the quality.
Nice paeonies. Screams in a midlands accent, somewhere Staffordshire in the mid to late nineteenth. I’d actually display it as is, a...
It might well be. I’ve seen a lot of this, those little swirls always remind me of iced gem biscuits.
I’d have grabbed it so fast! The chip doesn’t worry me either.
I’d grab that in a heartbeat.
That’s Neiger, I’m absolutely sure.
Deco in style, absolutely.
It’s not Bitossi, but I’ve forgotten who.
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