It is based on the pre-columbian ceramic dogs from Colima, Mexico. They have been reproduced/copied ad nauseam, and this looks like a modern...
Hello Crysta. Welcome to Antiquers. The costumes depicted date from the second half of the eighteenth century. But the textiles may not be that...
Do not alter an artist's original work. Period. Particularly an important artist.
Thank you all. Sometimes books are useful, even if a dying art. :bookworm::(
All right, now you have made me actually break out the old fashioned books (of which I have too many). :) According to Nigerian Weaving, by Venice...
I suspect the holes are simply a decorative style, rather than serving any particular function.
The site I posted above gives a number of specimens, ranging from a few inches up to 15 1/2".
Do we know that these are posted at the same scale? Original tooth size varied, too, and the shape certainly looks the same. If @journeymagazine...
Join the club. :) You did a better job of filling in the details. I wanted to go to sleep. :yawn:
@journeymagazine - perhaps you should look at @LoveTheHunt! 's previous posts to see what you should expect to be buying next?
Yes, the other two: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/thrift-store-find-small-bronze-dragon-cap-paper-weight-with-mark.34846/#post-496672...
This one has the same "eyelets": [IMG] https://indigoarts.com/indigo-ashok-aso-oke-cloth-0
It looks like it might be West African strip woven cloth, similar to this: [IMG] https://rugrabbit.com/node/180072
Thanks for your understanding. And I should have said "usually not quite as dense"........
Perhaps a fossilized tooth.
In the interest of cross-referencing - it is the same object, passed from one antiquer to another, as discovered in this later post:...
Looks like designs for small-scale wood fired cooking stoves.
Oh thank God! Thank you @i need help!
Now this is going to drive me nuts..... I can't remember how it was described before so can't find the thread. :banghead: Anybody else remember this?
@journeymagazine - did you perhaps post this before? Even the photos look familiar to me, but I can't find the previous post.
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