Could it be an old photograph?
sorted = corrected ...oh my!!
I didn't say sorted thRough, I said "though"! Never mind:eek:
Reading with interest the "is this a navajo rug" thread and remembered I had a rug (or maybe horse blanket) that I never identified ...Hadn't...
@DragonflyWink Interesting! Obviously? the same person as my "M. De Buolz" ..but my documents were sourced from the digital archive that...
Try looking up "M. De Buolz" brass
Nagel was the auctioneer, so price must have must have been in somethings-or-others.:D
I found a very similar one. It is his work. A jug with the same fish motif that sold for about 65 somethings-or-other (maybe Euros)
It could also be 'William S.' (sans dot;)) The illustrations are good quality and stylistically a bit Gibson Girl-y - agree with @Figtree3 these...
Sydney Reynolds (used to be on the corner of Government, across from the Empress) was the agent and Birks sold it too.
Beautiful! what a great chair!
Have to differ I'm afraid :wideyed: - this bowl is Japanese porcelain and Satsuma wares are pottery. Agree early 20thc. I think you'll find this...
How about Leviathan?
*off-topic* did anyone see the movie "Mermaid down"? Probably birds ...hard to make out ...definitely "beaked" things, eh? I guess that's what...
Top is heraldic (familial) with that shield and top motifs could be a bit marine-fishy too perhaps - I can see the shell, but the upper left...
:D
Well kind of chimeras but very definitely fish tails!
The legs/feet are carved sort-of grotesque mermaids, not beautiful maidens, more like sea monsters! I think this chair is a bit later than 18thc,...
Yours has a variation of the Mermaid motif so maybe it's a Sgabello chair
I'd describe this as a Black Forest chair, Baroque style. here's a whack of them https://www.pinterest.ca/jodyharmon74/sgabello-chairs/
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