It's decorative, so unless you paid an arm and a leg, don't worry too much. I've a habit of buying all sorts to simply learn from it.
Olive oil for me every time. ;) Very very sparingly. I suspect our climate is a little kinder, but it's also used widely in olive growing...
It says Ironstone and I'm afraid it's a very very recent repro from China. I se lots of these. One of the clues is that blue tinge to the whole...
You do get ground necks on older decanters. There's a name for these round ones, I've forgotten it though.
Agreed. An oil lamp would have a sort of sliced off top showing where the fitment is missing.
The Italian ones I've seen were usually rather nicely gilded and a bit baroque.
Brad, agreed. Mike, dolls clothing wasn't stored like that. Much of it could not even be removed!
Oh please. No 18th C craftsman or even country carpenter would have made anything as clunky or badly done as that. No dolls house furniture would...
I've seen sources that claim back to the late 19th, but I'm a little wary of that. It's lovely stuff.
I'm thinking German as well. I'll throw in how many German porcelain factories used crossed swords. That mark resembles one of the Rosenthal marks.
Given you can buy 4000 year old faience beads, I don't see why these may not be of some decent age.
The ones marked China can be as old as the early 20th. I have several brooches, and they all have really nice backs.
Sandon is a decent book, but a tad out of date. The Egyptians did enamelling. Roman glass is pretty damn fine though - google on how the Portland...
Google on Common control mark. How do you know their age and origin, by the way? Lucille, I've seen that fixing on Middle Eastern gold.
Italy has to abide by the EU common marking standards.
9 ct has to be marked in Europe unless it's below a certain weight.
Another clue to the age - and I agree with af - is that the glass may look greyish against later pieces. Wheel cutting is early 18th C at least.
In the UK and Europe, it is indeed carat for both, albeit with different meanings. With my physics geek head on, I'd also point out that it's a...
Wedgwood marked, but many others didn't. I see lots of these and they were made by lots of Staffordshire factories. Which is no help, I realise....
Madruzzato probably.
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