Well, it is a start. Perhaps the other two panels that you have will allow someone to identify them if you ask the Ukiyo-e Q&A community.
Ukiyo-e prints were often created as three separate prints, triptychs, so not folds from being in a book. I think the "writing" you are seeing are...
Hello and welcome, @rickkeller, I took the liberty of cropping and uploading your image to a site that catalogs Japanese ukiyo-e prints,...
Looking at stone oil lamps, I have found many of the same basic shape that are identified as "Islamic", some more specifically as Persian. But I...
Yes, the first one is a stone oil lamp. the second does look like it could be a kumkum / tika box to hold the colored powder that Hindus use to...
Yes, walrus tusk. The crystalline looking interior is the distinctive feature. For the history of billikens, see:...
For value, you can search sold listings on ebay. Search "crocodile alligator handbag", and select unbranded, and sold.
@Crim000 I stopped by 2manycats office the other day, and saw a mask he has that looks very similar to yours (I had forgotten he had it). [ATTACH]...
You say it is "hinged". How does the second part move - does it just rotate around the solid round part? Are there brass fittings on both ends, or...
Looks like it might be a collection of "debitage" - waste flakes created during tool production - rather than any actual arrowheads or other...
Something like this: [ATTACH]
It might be part of a 4 legged table, each leg being held onto the corners with decorative nuts.
Pre-Columbian ceramics without provenance are really hard to authenticate, especially from photographs. Reproductions have been made for sale to...
I agree, Coptic Ethiopian. It may have been designed to hold a painted wood icon, or perhaps a book, as @Any Jewelry suggests.
Bamber Gascoigne: How to Identify Prints. Thames & Hudson, 2nd ed. 2004. ISBN 9780500284803
Let me start by saying that the best way to be assured of buying an authentic antiquity is to buy only objects with well documented and legal...
You could try sending photos to the Art Institute, Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art. The Museum is currently closed due to Covid, though.
It appears to be a Corinthian alabastron, reconstructed from sherds to a professional museum standard (filling the losses with a neutral color...
I am curious, @kardinalisimo, did you actually test it with a magnet to determine it was cast iron? I ask because the interior looks like the head...
It is a flat-woven rug known as a "kilim". Probably from the Caucasus region, similar to this one identified as Armenian: [IMG]...
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