Something like a paint tin lid but on a smaller scale. Cocoa powder used to come in tins like that... other powders as well, I'm guessing. (I'm...
I was reading "guest" instead of "quest". I was expecting a cat.
Lots of references to Michael Andersen and Sons, Bornholm, Denmark. Very nice MCM stuff. Probably a later iteration of the same company....
Pretty sure that's on laid paper, though it isn't super obvious. It has to be laid paper to be by Dujardin because wove paper did not exist in...
Just stumbled onto this: A Swiss engraver named Samuel Granicher (1758-1813) Here's an eBay listing for a Karel Dujardin print, c1656:...
Could be calcite. I'm reading online that banded calcite sometimes is called onyx. Can you check the hardness? Looking online, alabaster has a...
Could be onyx.
It doesn't look like laid paper to me, and that's bad news. You need to show it to someone who knows, hands on. Wove paper (no lines) wasn't...
Terrific find, Charlie! It does seem to be the Dujardin composition, but reversed and without the sketchy background. You can enlarge this image...
I trhink it's the intensity of the color that's throwing me off. I've had color washed EAPG, but it's always shown very obvious wear.
I'd probably have thought modern and eastern European. Maybe not.
I wouldn't have pegged them for EAPG.
I see online that the full book is 358 pages, so this is the first half. (But where will I find the second at an affordable price?)
More art-deco-ish revival, and the date will be 1990. Certainly Erte inspired. Maybe a copy.
Purchased online. The book has been rebacked, the cover set with tooled leather from the original binding. Illustrated with about 40 engravings...
Looks more African than Indian to me. Looking online, in Africa it's the Ndebele of South Africa who wear them. That might be an indicator of...
A beautiful and remarkable thing. Here's the Bonham's entry: https://www.bonhams.com/press_release/35548/ I can't find the sale result.
The snake piece is called Palissy ware, and actual animals may have been used for the molds.
Te French did mounted vanity sets. I don't know who else did them, but the few I've seen have been French. [ATTACH] Doesn't necessarily mean...
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