The Borrowers' great enemy was cats!
Coffee rather than tea, I'd have thought. Or it would be here. Lovely thing.
I think I have Borrowers.
I'll have a rootle round. Scramble is the proper glass/paperweight term, it ought to work. Be back.....
Went up to an outdoor market yesterday, first time since September 2019. Jools ensued. As did cheap chocolate, a really good sausage in a roll,...
There you go! ;) Excellent.
Italian, I'd say. They're scrambled beads. Forgotten the name for the lumpy look.
Those are operculum, and that is a very old carving. I suspect 18th C, there was a great fashion for them. I think it may be a table snuff box....
Bisque is unglazed porcelain. What you've got there is a plaster or chalk type body with a painted decoration that wasn't fired on. If it had been...
This is a spa glass. Neat, isn't it. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I've no clue on those, although I suspect they're French given the moulded number. The speckling isn't a British maker I can think of. I'll go...
The chasing and engraving are a good clue: that acanthus leaf type motif and the background is typical. A double tongue clasp like that with a...
It isn't bisque, look at those chips. Painted over plaster or chalk.
It was pretty well a slushie, and a fine one. In Catalunya, they serve lemon sorbet with cava poured over it. Yum.
I've got one like that! I wonder where the house has hidden it.
Agree on the quality. The chased work is very well done. I'd ultrasound bath that, or use an old toothbrush with vinegar.
Chalkware, isn't it? A child.
I've made a sorbet with marc, which is a type of cognac made from waste grape skins from wine making. It was rather fine but a devil to freeze.
You can get greenies on the alloy metal which the ten carat was mixed with. If that makes sense. And muck in crevices. Late 19th/erly 20th.
I'm not convinced it was born here. Yes on the stipples, but the motifs aren't ours.
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