It's the mask that may be Bacchus.
Most probably Italian, as they're fishies.
I agree, it's not sommerso. Foglia d'oro is a good term, but not widely used in glass collecting circles - it would be called aventurine, even...
Hm. The panther head is very like that winged thing.
The Meissen one is also a proper griffin.
1920s or 30s, but not bookends - they match, rather than mirror. I'd agree on doorstops.
He may well be Bacchus/Dionysus, that did cross my mind as those are vine leaves. In that case, the horned person would be a satyr. There are...
I don't think he's a griffin/gryphon. No beak. They have eagle heads and front claws, the rest being leonine. That fellow has a nose, teeth and...
Yup. That was expensive high fashion and is much toned down from New Look. It was also unavailable to your everyday woman in the street, or even...
Not a leprechaun. You have a winged lion, not a dragon. Pan holding the bowl with the child. He's not a cherub, no wings. The face looks like the...
Someone with sharp eyes!
Bit different here from the US. The Board of Trade prohibited fashions with excess fabric such as New Look and it was considered unpatriotic, too....
So do I. Indian wedding jewellery.
Someone had that made in Dubai or the UAE, I reckon.
It's British and mid 19th C. I agree on something Hall as a pattern name. And I've seen the building. <sigh>
I've seen these. Bother my aging brain, I can't recall what the thing is for.
That short dress is fine for Britain in the late 40s. A utility shape at the time when we still had serious fabric rationing and controls on what...
I'm wary of that attribution. Never heard of her, can't find any references. I'd gamble twenty but no more.
For the same reason some early china was signed with fake Chinese marks here?
That's a cyberman, I swear it.
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