Your scroll is a modern copy of a painting originally made in Tang Dynasty China, c. 907, attributed to the artist Zhang Xuan. Referred to as...
The original was by Utagawa Hiroshige, "Sea Coast by Tenjin Mountain in Kazusa Province", 1852....
With regard to the "staff" - does the hole I see on the shaft go all the way through, so that you could insert a rod through it? Can you determine...
I don't know what the tubular container was for, but the style of the carved stopper looks Yoruba, similar to their "Ibeji" twin carvings: [IMG]...
Berdiyev/Berdiev is a common name in Turkmenistan, and the tent looks like a Turkmen yurt. [IMG]...
Similar openwork bowls are identified as Black Forest carvings. Dates I think are guesses, ranging from Victorian to 1920s....
Yes, like most photographic printing processes, the light values are reversed with each iteration. So to get a positive print you first need a...
I am not a specialist in this area, but just comparing the heads visually it seems more likely to be Thai than Gandharan. The Gandharan art is...
Peretti Griva appears to have published a series of portfolios of his photographs of the Aosta Valley, in the 1950s, which look similar to your...
What are the dimensions of the folder and prints?
Your 4th image does not seem to have loaded properly. I would like to see a straight on view of the front. Perhaps this is the photo that did not...
I think keeping such a unique collection together would be very important. You might try contacting the Rhode Island Historical Society to see if...
I do not have enough experience with these particular textiles to suggest a date, but the comment I quoted about the use of more subtle colors in...
It is not a tribal style that I recognize. The red and black colors, at least, look like acrylic paint. And the woven portion of the beard looks...
I can't comment on its origin, but based on the detail photo it should not be described as a kilim. A kilim is woven in a method similar to...
It is a beautiful piece. Although the figures are in a Persian style, it may be from Kashmir, where there is a long tradition of making textiles...
The enlarged portraits you refer to are probably solar enlargements, which were very often retouched and hand colored. Salted paper (using Louis...
If you cannot tell by sight and feel, you can distinguish silk from the plant fibers (pina or abaca) by a simple burn test, if you can a pull a...
So far, all tourist/decorative pieces. Workshops in Accra and Kumasi (Ghana) churn out stuff for the decorator market. You can google "Ghana wood...
I can't help but think that Marion Carll would be heart broken to see that her bequest was so ill cared for. It is a lesson in being careful about...
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