The wood "stretcher" does not look old it looks stained
agree with @Debora Photos are not clear enough.
Looks like he was out in BC painting this, an old west coast double ender up on the hard.
Pretty nice portrait, yes I'd say English or Irish, possibly a fragment, looks 18thc or early 19th at latest, don't see any restoration, looks...
Yes, I read that link and yes, that is the mark etc. I just don't agree that the porcelain bearing that mark was made at Choisy-le-Roy. The...
They didn't make porcelain at Choisy-le-Roy, though, just pottery, and not in that style either.
That etsy bowl is far too sloppy to be 18thc., 20thc. is more like it.
I think it's all BS - all this porcelain stuff out there called "Choisy-le-Roy" is not French, some other factory in Germany using the mark is my...
Good call @anundverkaufen - lovely thing in it's own right too! The only mysterious thing about it being Choisy etc, is that AFAIK they were...
how come it's all scratched? Did someone scotchbrite it?
As he seemed to have a long career and Venice is just over the hill from Switzerland, it doesn't seem unreasonable that this is also a work by...
Agreed, a beauty!
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I just realized it is a porcelain piece so could be later than I first suggested. Design is quite cursory too so could be MUCH later ..sorry I...
I bought it already and sold it too cheap.
I quite like the Brooklyn bridge, good mod decorator piece, sell it as school of Buffet ....others are rubbish.
Kettle looks British IMO
Very nice @SBSVC - have you seen the movie "1917" by any chance? I spotted a few trench watches in that film (an amazing film BTW)
I think by 1920, things like this were out of fashion. This piece looks later in the scheme of things so possibly just pre-WW1 or thereabouts,...
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