Very nice. Czechoslovakia was created in 1918. That's at the end of the art nouveau period, but this could easily have been made around then or a...
[ATTACH] Marc-Louis Solon is known for his pate-sur-pate work at Minton. This is not pate-sur-pate, but his name has some real cachet. Scripta...
Not finding it with a quick online search, but idle guess is it is a cathedral souvenir, the original being a jamb figure.
I'm always impressed by the amount of effort people put into making beads.
I think it's a Japanese-style bucket, with rats getting at whatever is inside. I think that rats in both China and Japan can be seen as...
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The oldest patent date is 1891, and the most recent 1900, so yours wont be not much more than 10 years after the original patent. Maybe the thing...
My book is put away, and all I could think of was Ormes, but Ohme it is.
A good tight close-up of the ceramic wall where the hole is might help to tell if it is shell-tempered.
I think that it's encouraging that someone thought enough of it to reconstruct it. A lot of fire sign on it.
That's an interesting bit of reading.
Yes, but the caption is more of a photo credit. It does say Hohentübingen Castle.
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I think the Wessel ID is correct, but out of curiosity: isn't this one of the marks that the Chinese imitate?
I think this is an intentional effect. It's a bit too object specific to be an accidental over exposure.
It's very stark. Harsh contrasts.
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The hat and the procession: that's pretty good focus on both. Must have been a bright day. I'd crop it to eliminate that white sky, but I don't...
I just noticed that the thingy (can't think of the name) on top is at the front of the piece, not the back. That does support the idea it was...
It's a heavy tin glaze, which I think makes this faience. It looks to me like earthenware beneath. I can only conjecture on the date, but 18th...
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