Sometimes the importation situation changes if you are dealing with declared antiques. Might be worth looking into.
The mount doesn't seem particularly fine to me and €2500 is a lot of money. I think you need to spend time looking at quality antiques and...
Expensive to import because of the shipping cost? Maybe leave the glass behind? It's a significant portion of the weight, and I agree that it's...
Fantastic collection!
I think maybe plaster.
It's fun. Despite the technique and colors, it has a slightly cartoon-ish look to me.
Looks like post war luster ware to me. The "Foreign" designation referred to former enemies where naming the name might be detrimental to sales....
Are you sure they're glass? They look ceramic to me.
Looks like an '80s something or other. White Rabbit.
Who made the chair, and when, may have nothing to do with the upholstery, which could be much later. It does look like expensive fabric.
Not a clue, but that's certainly exuberant upholstery.
Well yeah... if you've got an Albrect Durer (died 1528). There are very few print maker names that carry that much weight. A collection like...
I'm envious.
Of course those aren't the kinds of medals such a cabinet would be meant to hold, but the image did spring to mind.
Stylistically, I'd call it Baroque, but that's no comment on when it was made.
Another misreading? At least I'm consistent.
"...all that brass" is silver. 280kg used in that cradle
I've always been impressed by the cradle for Napoleon's son:...
There was something about those densely repeating motifs that made me think India/Indonesia, like that. [IMG]
Some people do seem to accumulate medals: [IMG]
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