I suspect it's Sklo.
Hah. ;) I wasn't far off then. I'd like to see the tazza too. Those square ones somehow have that aged look.
Have a look at Stag Minstrel, for example, you'll see what I mean. My late mama had an almost identical chest of drawers to yours, same handles...
Hm. Tazza, top right is interesting. Perhaps that, or my second guess is the two blue transferware below.
It's because he's been stalked and ripped off. He makes his living from reaearching, writing and appearances. People used to send him photos and...
Well done fig!
it says de Belgique. That's grammatically correct, you omit the definite article for a feminine country. Je suis d'Angleterre is correct, for...
quirly, your glasses definitely look English and nineteenth century. They may be illusion glasses.
That chased back doesn't look Thai to me.
It reads thus: For Cara with a smile from Maggy. Then below, and with a kiss from the mother from Belgium. De, in this context, means from. For...
I'm even more sure it's Stag.
Mark is lovely, and very helpful. He also really knows his stuff. (Where are you getting that 150 from?)
I strongly suspect this was made by a company called Stag. Very nice quality repros of earlier Georgian, Queen Anne and Victorian furniture. Not...
It might well have had a lid. I've only ever seen it on Empoli made items - there were and are several factories there, so you'll not pin it...
That almost honeycomb pattern in the moulding.
That screams and shouts English to me. It also shouts to me that it had an overmantle mirror or upper part. That's why the shield infills: it's...
It definitely is. That bottom is the giveaway.
Coral is indeed very traditional here. It was a thing for a girl baby to be gifted with a coral necklace, cross and chain and a pearl necklace....
Empoli.
Exactly. And they might indeed, they're good things.
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