Display cabinet to me, but ymmv. ;)
Good point on the colour. My dad was in the print trade: blue was the least stable colour.
I agree it's Italian, and probably 1960s, but more likely to be alabaster. There was and is a big thing for this dyed look, too.
Stylised longboats, if that helps.
I've seen those. From memory, late 70s into early 80s and a sort of fibre glass. Very light, yes?
Lock looks 19th C. The hinge might jsut be a replacement or simply rather clean.
Porzellan, in this context, means Pottery, as in a place that makes it. So it's German or Austrian studio pottery. Nice glaze.
That back is certainly late 19th. Long pin and tube hinge. I suspect it's Austrian.
I meant the one in the photo. The painting is a similar tiara frame, sans pearls for some reason.
The Cambridge Lover's Knot Tiara.
Diana. That's the tiara the Queen Mother gave her.
Looks Edwardian to me, early 20th, with those paned doors. The torch flame finial is interesting. Nothing on the locks or hinges?
Ah, is THAT what it is! I'd squinted enough at it that I thought it was a Red Ensign. Forgot the old Canadian flag. This is the best thread here...
That's how styles evolve. No such thing as purity.
So, your collector was perhaps from a British merchant family, given the sort of red ensign on that one. Can you get a close up of it? I'm...
Not British. I don't see any reason to doubt it being Japanese, but let's see what the rest think.
Your set is Viennese, by the way. It's interesting that the bottles would have been relatively old fashioned when this was made.
Think Charles Rennie Mackintosh: he did a lot of that squared piercing. It's Arts and Crafts transitioning to Art Nouveau here, seccessionist to...
We call it burr. ;) The knotty growth caused by a cell deformity, can be bug or weather triggers.
Yup, plastic - it's a clouded kind.
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