SIS for the win!
I'm thinking possibly IGV.
If you like the frame and it's cheap enough, you could put your own print in it.
I knew when Putin declared himself "President for life" that there was trouble ahead.
Sweet! I think it's handpainted, too, but a bit on the folksy side. Quick painting. Dunno, maybe Japanese, but others may know better and one...
My grandparents little telephone table and chair is in my bedroom. It's my daily "clothes rack" with some bric-a-brac on the table! :D
There are plenty of totalitarian regimes out there. Why some like leaders who are dictators, I'll never understand. We do have China out there...
I like "Austrian guy." I think that's how I'll refer to him from now on!
I dunno. Looks like another handle over the top has broken off at some point? The decoration looks somewhat Indian to me or maybe Indonesian!...
M R or M K Clark, I think. My opinion is a little different: I think the flowers in the cartouches are hobby painted whereas the gilded and...
Bunad purse -- never heard of it, and I'm half Norwegian, LOL! Learned my something new today!
I had no idea that there were Parker pen sets like that! Fabulous. Canada is a Commonwealth country, and I've never seen any like that in these...
I'm curious.
I don't know about Vernon Kilns, but sometimes that off-white colour is called ivory.
Ah! The mark was so blurry, I couldn't read it.
Yes, I should've added that it is English -- likely a Staffordshire factory -- and c.1875.
Thanks Figtree3 and SIS for the research! I love it when my WAGs are substantiated! :D
Sweet plate. 19th aesthetic decoration.
Fairly recent, I think. @Figtree3 Is that mark Russian?
That is lovely! I know nothing except to say it's a quality piece.
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