The best thing is to try it on a thing which you know to be amber as a baseline. UV shows as a blue diffused veiling.
Letter looks right. I think the bale is a replacement.
SI-AN is an Empoli glassmaker. SC is also Empoli based, but not the same bunch.
I think it's too pale even if refinished. Elm was very common for chests of drawers here:...
Absolutely there are! You have to buy a licence, but it's a big Thing in London.
It's Italian. The label refers to the stated fabric content under the law of the 28th November 1973.
It's super, but the market is flat as heck for things like this. Absolutely not mahogany, maybe elm. As a guide, I recently saw a lovely late...
Gen belli, this is absolutely typical of reconstituted amber - both that bumpy back and the "inclusions". It's little bits pressed together with...
Some of these are English. This might be - it's a little unguent pot, maybe early 19th C. You find them on the Thames foreshore.
Fornasetti, not with a C. ;) All his stuff sells amazingly.
Not water, but linseed oil.
My compliments on an excellent post. The Irish Travellers here call themselves just that: travellers. They are devoutly Catholic and very socially...
I've had these. It did indeed have a stopper, despite the fact that there's no ground area. Modern giftware, very well done and yes, Chinese....
Not Chinese, certainly Bohemian.
Ah, my language bump kicks in. ;) I love the fact that Romany has bits of Hindi.
She's my favourite. I love Montserrat with a passion.
Yup! Not for years though. And I know the Montserrat Madonna very well, although she's a different thing again.
Most welcome - I've friends who would love that.
I've been to a few - mostly the Spanish ones.
More likely to be resin. She's Our Dear Lady of Altotting Bavaria, Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_of_Our_Lady_of_Altotting
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