One thought. The ivory looks like an engraving After an Old Master. If you can track down the painting.....?
That fabric looks right for late 19th, certainly. The box itself - sans panel - looks English, as does that silk. I wonder if the panel was a...
I think modern Asian - but either way, that price still goes. :)
That is more likely to be a customer or pattern number.
I'd look for a good old bevelled edge mirror in a beaten up frame and then do a swap.
Victorians loved what they called scraps which are printed paper things you stuck on screens and in albums. Yours is in the style of that....
Can you get a close up of both the screws/hinges and the angel panel, please? I'm inclined to glove box rather than dresser, or even for fans.
Very modern, I've seen them. Agree on Chinese - could be stone, is it cold and stays cold?
Me too.
Need photos of the base please. It's almost impossible to attribute some of this: the lookalikes are very good these days. The blue looks better...
I sold some carved ones a few weeks back - those are almost always from Ercolani, near Naples. af, that looks more like a Victorian applied...
Very good advice. Will Farmer knows a great deal on Stourbridge glass. Fieldings annual glass sale is superb.
Agreed, mirror frame.
No, two different animals, Gila. Wildrose's vase is, to me, closer to crystalline, albeit not like some, as she says.
How did you arrive at the S&W attribution?
I wonder if that was once silver plated - look at the black areas. I think early 19th.
Musket balls are just over a dollar each here - bought my godson one, he does civil war re-enactment. He has a six foot long musket. ;)
D'oh! Now that af has said that, of course. Makes perfect sense.
SOWWY! You get a vote too, komo. ;)
Cheryl gets my vote with pen or pencil. Those "seals" are often unengraved and decorative. Might be from a dance card or chatelaine. Bet it's English.
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