Don't know this Santini, but the original statues are by Michelangelo and in the Medici chapel in Florence. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I've been told that pieces like this were made of beeswax and also served a function as air-freshener. I once had this one: [ATTACH]
Those outer stones are so clear, I thought they were missing.
People frequently don't visit the Gallery, so photos need to be included in the thread. Others will be along with info on how to do that. For...
Offered to actively participating , well-known members. We’ll see what the situation is Sunday evening. Free, really cheap, poorly packed...
You know you are looking for a white bodied ceramic with a white opaque glaze with a bluish tinge. Are you close to any museums that would have...
I can't say. Hopefully whoever offered it knew what they were talking about. A white clay body covered in an opaque white glaze with a very...
I'm only telling you what I've read: I don't know much from experience. The molds definitely are similar, but I can't tell if they are identical....
I don't think necessarily so, but possibly. I've read that it was a cottage industry to hand pack molds leaving some areas of a figurine solid...
The best way to find out why they reproduced these posters is to ask them. It probably has to do with the Illuminati and space aliens. (For...
You could contact the museum and ask. At least you could find out if they are standard gift store stock, or can be special ordered.
Idle conjecture: they might have been done for an exhibition of war or propaganda art.
And another one bites the dust. (I may hang on to this one.) Plenty more to come. Not done yet. Not done. No sir. No siree.
There's someone who knew what they were doing!
I first found it online as an engraving: Shepherd from Kolabria
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leopold_Pollak_-_Fl%C3%B6tespielender_Hirtenknabe_in_der_r%C3%B6mischen_Compagna_(1857).jpg Leopold...
It's very nice, but I'm unconvinced it's KPM quality. The example shown in @Roaring20s third link is identified as KPM on that site. They are...
Sounds likely.
The first is a WWI poster: "Help us win, buy war bonds". Designed by Fritz Erler in 1917, it was the first such German Poster. The second was a...
From the way the mark is written, I would guess that's the decorator.
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