Yours does not look North American to me, and it's definitely not Pacific Northwest Native American in style.
Alas, I have no Spanish Gold doubloon from Ecuador, which is actually what Ahab nails to the mast of the Pequod. And of course, it's Ahab himself...
"Whosoever of ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw... he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!” --Captain Ahab
Yeah-- I think I was wrong to think that that was the person who made it. Thanks for the parallel info.
I have a couple with minor -ish damage, and that are more interesting to me (for example, one that is local to where I live), and that display...
Thanks @2manybooks. Thanks @komokwa.
I think it has some age. Prob not antique, but older than 20-30 years, at least. The incised cuts / designs look very much like the style and...
A broken basket is always a broken basket, but at $18 I can't not buy this large 21" wide basket. Based on American Indian Baskets: Building and...
Interesting idea....
Thanks. I agree that the layering of typical lacquerware, produced by numerous application / drying cycles, then cut into revealing those layers,...
That sticker is coming up as having been made Toyo Toki, a Japanese ceramics company.
Wow! So that's about as rock-solid a match as can be. Thanks for gettin' it out and helping.
Makes sense-- thank you!
Yeah-- I see some online described as such, but I think cinnabar is by its very nature red. So...???
This is one of those Chinese lacquerware boxes. The material is kinda soft, dull, and relatively heavy. It is not the more recent (and common)...
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Interesting. Thanks for the lead @crowleys .
It's a long shot but it's possible that someone could help me identify who made this 8" x 6.5" jar: V. Harrison. I found it at an estate sale in...
I actually have an upright piano in my classroom. (I don't teach music.) I don't know how to play it, but I always have students who do. Once I...
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