I'm suggesting it is an Emile Gallé design, executed and produced by Keller and Guerin at Luneville. Seems reasonable, considering they did...
I prefer the Erte look to the ball cap look I see today.
Glue it! Fairly recent import imo
Love to see this in action, always liked the tractor sprinklers but this one takes the cake! <edit> just watched the vid - cool!:eggface:
Just trying to keep up with you INH:bucktooth:
here's another piece, interesting that it only sold for 37 Euros ......
After a few days puzzling over this vase, I realized there was something very familiar about the beast and shield motif and the "French...
I'm not sure if brick feet came into style before or after lion paw so I'm a bit hazy on the date
berry berry nice indeed:blackeye:
Lost wax jobbie! Pretty special and pretty great!
It was indeed! Those boats/sails are often associated with Venetian scenes but I'm sure those lateen rigs appear in other parts of the Med too!...
That style of painting has tints added to thin varnishes in layers - trouble is, cleaning can take off varnish and unfortunately that happens a...
waste of money
You don't want to clean those - you'd take the glaze off and f them up for sure.
Before we get even further off-track, the OP was asking about antiques, not art. :pompous:
As far as I know, not much if any porcelain was produced in the Islamic world, pottery yes, lots, porcelain? Nope. I still think you are dealing...
looks French to me, I'll go see if I have that mark in one of my books ..back in a bit:bookworm: <edit> ok, I'm back - not any mark in the French...
Austrian my guess
I'd go with Greek, that was my first reaction ..
Fairly new piece, not bad quality though. I believe the marks are upside down? I flipped them and they look more like Chinese characters but not...
Separate names with a comma.
