This is an odd Japanese piece-seems to be hand painted plastic (imitation Laquerware). It's 9 1/4 inches across & has zero signature front or...
Love the hand-cut cross motif,guess I had ancient on the brain ! Still-we got what we got,damn pretty though.
Muñoz Arce, Madrid, from 1930-I would've estimated 18th-19th cent,but then that's my silver knowledge.
Ditto AJ- That piece might actually be non-airport art(!). Be great if it was a dance piece-old in African Art terms is relative (like 1950's)....
IMHO-This piece is definitely the most interesting to me,but my silver knowledge is minimal. PS-I hesitate to 'tag' anybody to help you ID this...
One of the funner old places to hit at the mall.
Good find Komo !
IMHO-Looks 60's thru 80's to me.
Leave it to the US Govt to invent the first version of a Yeti cup & then donate the Tech to the private sector-good thinkin' boys !
-or an entire mall. By the way Whit-that's probably the model cup that Gable & Tracy were drinking from when they made 'Test Pilot' in 1938....
Before the War the well-meaning Christian Missionaries in China & India imparted the new religion and in trade got no small amount of ancient...
Woody Guthrie was out that way around 1941,where he wrote 'Roll On Columbia' in association w/ a WPA project involving Bonneville Power...
U.S.Q.M.C.-United States Quarter Master Corps. ? Nice pre-war. Whit-You should've opened a stores decades...or aeons ago !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George-Thanks for the recommendations re: FB Sites. Kent-Thanks for the tips. PS-Seems the Asian Art Forum is close to extinct ?
Can you hype-up the image a bit w/ yr phone's edit mode function ? You can fiddle w/ contrast,highlight,sharpness,etc.
I'm probably the last human on this planet not on FB ! There's two many interesting sites-I give up. Can you tell us all what the FB group was...
My Father-In-Law had a TRS-80 and when we went over for dinner I'd sit there for hours trying not to nod off as he explained what all pointillist...
It's been stellar down here too-I feel like Noah.
Beautiful chalice Whit-san,hai (or maybe get 'high' !) From that tan line,I'd say you're giving George Hamilton a run for his money.
What a glorious tableaux ! Lefton sees to have gone a bit bonkers lately-Xmas elfs,pixies, angels, bluebirds,Miss Priss. Used to see this stuff...
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