I can see why you thought he might be Songye, with the beard, the squarish shoulders, and the pot belly. But there are significant departures from...
Welcome! Please tell us the dimensions, and include a few more views - sides, back, and bottom.
The diagnostic schreger lines cross-hatching of elephant ivory are most visible on cross sections, or at least curved areas, of the original tusk....
They do look like lacquerware, and are probably from Burma/Myanmar. The image on the first one is a "hintha" bird, the Burmese version of the...
Not from Tonga in the Pacific, but from Zimbabwe (Africa). Made by Tonga artisans in the Binga region, so often referred to as Tonga-Binga...
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Certainly looks like a stamp/seal. Perhaps @Any Jewelry can explain why the text is not reversed.
The text is at least after the Revised Standard Version (RSV), first published in 1952, which eliminated most of the archaic English "thees" and...
Isaiah 45:2-3. The text is difficult to read from your photograph, but if you can transcribe it you may be able to find the particular Bible...
I would lean toward tagua nut. If it is elephant ivory, schreger lines should be visible on the bottom/cross section. But the photo is not clear...
Do you have any reliable history as to where these objects came from?
Based on the hairstyle, it depicts a Maasai warrior, but it may not have been made by a Maasai carver. Several groups in East Africa (Kenya,...
The writing does not look like Arabic, and seems to repeat several times in the middle of the line.
It looks like it might be an illustration from a book, rather than a stand alone print. I tried uploading the image to the search service at...
The scene is based on a painted box found in Tutankhamun's tomb: [IMG] https://www.nilemuse.com/muse/TutBoxF.html
Not a traditional style, which makes them difficult to identify.
Amphorae were large ceramic jars (not glass). The term is used both for elaborately decorated forms, as well as for utilitarian jars used to...
I would expect a tool to be either smooth (ground), or flaked, not dimpled all over like that. But it is possible it was picked up as an...
Although relatively simple, patches can cause problems in the future as it restricts the movement of the canvas in that area. It will cause stress...
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