Ammonia is wonderful for blocked sinuses and cleaning ovens.
I remembered the delightful term for that kind of silver work. Planished. Lovely word.
Marko, she's Minoan or at least a take off of one of the wall paintings in Knossos. Is the bale shaped a bit like a long pointed animal head?
(Fishes out Navajo watch band. Yup ) The idea of the yei being watch band sides makes huge sense to me, too.
I agree, komo. Too clean for old ivory, too.
Agreed. The restringing isn't wonderful, I'd be tempted to redo it. Bigger beads look like cloud glass to me. I don't think they started out together.
Second pic looks like an inside view, all the way through. I'm with acyrlic on this, it's far too white to be an early plastic.
The facial modelling is superb on those.
It might be worth someone holding it in their hand, as they say. They'd need to give you a written statement, which might cost.
Being faintly vague is sensible. Good luck!
Ah, gotcha komo, makes sense. ;) Shannon, if you can get the bead holes and thread, that will also help.
Good luck with proving it was imported before 1990: https://www.fws.gov/international/travel-and-trade/ivory-ban-questions-and-answers.html
It does also look as though it might be heat proof glass, hm?
British Colonial stuff was commisioned by colonists who brought styles with them.
komo, the beads look cut to me? The clear ones especially. The opaque obes might well be amethyst.
There are 97,000 listings on Ebay.com using the word Persian. It isn't Islamic, of course. Some of these are now being copied in India, not...
Schraeger. :(
Well done komo. I'd thought African but you pinned it. I suspect a little tourist thing.
These got made here as flower show exhibitor vases.
Known as celery handles here. That enamelling does look a tad English, and we certainly had companies making square necks like that. Whitefriars...
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