I think the "Boys Playing Dice" is probably a transfer. It's based on a painting by Bartolome Esteban Murillo. It was a very popular transfer. I'd...
Hello Everyone! I know it's unlikely I'll ever know the manufacturer of this box but there's a tableau going on here and I'd like to find out if...
It looks more like a cutting board than a plate? How many did you get?
It's pot metal usually. I found the following definition of pot metal on Wikipedia. "Pot metal (or monkey metal) is an alloy of low-melting point...
Thank you bluumz and Ownedbybear!
Hello Board Friends - I am trying to see if I am on the right track in researching this piece. The underplate measures 8 1/2" across and the boat...
I think that's the way it usually works with Culver but I'm not 100% sure.
Culver Glass made a pattern called Tyrol. https://www.replacements.com/crystal-culver-tyrol/c/337269
They look Italian to me. Something about the way the hands and feet are rendered...
I have his Italian Pottery Marks from Cantagalli to Fornasetti and turned up the basically the same thing SIS did.
I was able to find a few examples of the full set. Apparently there was also a matching cream and sugar. All of these links are dead ends but at...
I checked my Red Wing book and didn't see your pattern but it does say "Though items now thought of as BrushWares were produced as early as the...
It does have decorator appeal and for $5 how can you go wrong? It will be worth at least that if you ever decide to part with it.
I think it's a hobbyist painted piece so all you really need to do is find a pot in that shape and purchase solely for the lid. Or...
I think it's a modern Chinese piece, Mike, based on the bottom and the even all over crazing, but please wait for other opinions.
I'm still leaning towards a French reproduction. Good quality but not a circa 1770's piece and the decoration feels more French to me than German....
Thank you for posting. I would never have recognized these as Brayton Laguna.
Possibly French. I would look at Porcelaine de Paris or Samson. I get the marks between the two confused.
I would have guessed Bohemian lead crystal. Or somewhere in Eastern Europe. It should ring when tapped. The gray cutting on the file decoration is...
Thanks, everyone. It's a shame that site is gone. :(
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