Early containers for transporting oil to the fish and chip shops.
Yep, this is known generically as an old master drawing. Good idea to try and identify the subject matter or story depicted. BTW, in English...
French were are fond of brass cookware. New Orleans ...that makes sense
Agree with @Fid . Final observation. Wallpaper panel.
I was going to offer $5 for a laugh, but thought better of it and cruised his other listings instead. I guess he's an adherent to the ancient art...
Soap and water, try an eraser on the marks first, I don't think much can harm hard paste porcelain; it's pretty inert stuff.
Nice job and judicious use of feathered mask I'm guessing?
I think there's a good possibility that it was not too old when your relatives bought it back around 1915, give or take a few years. Japanese of...
Tremendous fantasy dreamer write-up, all in caps too, really great - however this is just a piece of Isnik ware, nice enough, but 20thc.
Nope, I think a modern piece.
looked like a watercolour to me
...and Chinese.
don't know but check out Billy and Charley for fun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadwell_forgeries
Very new restaurant ware
Jumanji!
Great job Kyra, looks just like Bergman now!!:smuggrin:
with apologies to George Washington .. "I cannot tell (if it's) a Lyre"
"D"?
In the 1880's Royal Worcester made superb pieces in the Japonist style, (they would be marked of course) along with other high fashion British and...
Well for sure it isn't Chinese - what is it made of by the way? (pottery or porcelain?) Japan is a fair guess, but as it's also extremely unusual...
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