Yup, spot on, both. It's quite common to have unmarked gold, as you know, especially older.
Remember that gold hasn’t always been as costly as it is now. And that type of construction is easily done and quickly.
It’s the old truism: folkow your instinct!
You can absolutely sell them in the U.K., but you have to describe them as yellow metal and can add that it tests as 22ct. I’d be looking at...
I was thinking Indian but Nepal makes sense.
The body, glaze and printing is typical. There’s some big ones out there, the cenotaph for example.
It’s typical of crested ware. Goss did these as did some other makers, my brain isn’t working. However, many were made in Germany.
It’s brilliant, isn’t it.
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The Facebook group are really good on British potters. There’s an online database too, let me go find it.
Excellent price!
It’s got something, hasn’t it.
It’s a chrysanthemum and that thing looks Japanese. I like it, I’d grab it.
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