If you have good lighting, and know what you are looking for you can look for the lines yourself. It would certainly be easier than getting good...
Unless she just didn't want to try to sell it in her shop. ;)
Welcome, @Ruskoinabiscuit. Your piece is in the style of a Japanese netsuke, which were used as toggles on purses, tucked under the waist sash. If...
The original image occurs on a gilt shrine from the tomb of Tutankhamun. It is said to depict Tut and Queen Ankhesenamun. [IMG]...
It does not look like wood, particularly with that cylindrical hollow inside. I cannot tell what the material is, but it looks more like it is a...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Melville's first book, Typee, was first published in 1846 by John Murray in London, and a few months later by Wiley and Putnam,...
Welcome @Kyle2012. To help you with your books we need to see the title page and the copyright page (on the reverse of the title page), which will...
I agree that it is probably a decorator piece, in an African style. But I think it is based on Baule masks. They frequently have the small...
I am not sure about this one, but I am pretty sure it is not from the Pacific. It has many features that make me think it might be a Makonde...
"Sengoku-mame, Fuji-mame" - Japanese, not Chinese.
Both look like Pima, or early Tohono-O'odham (Papago). As noted in the video, the most important distinguishing feature between these and baskets...
The first two stone figures appear to be in the style of the Pre-Columbian Mezcala culture, from the state of Guerrero, Mexico. Little is known...
It looks like it is from the tradition of pichwai painting, from Rajasthan, India. Originally these were (and still are) made as large cloths...
They are all modern enough that I would expect them to say Acoma (or another Pueblo) on the bottom if they were made there. The tall vase may be...
According to @2manycats (sitting exhausted in his chair this evening), these blank pages were standard in some early editions of many Beatrix...
With the magnifying loops on one end, I think it is more likely a tool for examining something other than eyes - perhaps a tool used in...
I agree that they look like they are made of alabaster, and that they do not look like they have ever been used. The oil would have stained the...
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