Looks like vaseline glass? Have you tried it under UV light?
It doesn't help at all, but I have the auction catalog. It was a big deal for them - hard cover, single item: [ATTACH] It has this photo of the...
All it takes is one person to complain. I can readily imagine people finding things to complain about in 19th C sermons. One mention of "the...
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Libation cup would be my guess - with a form borrowed from rhino-horn.
The people in the painting could be voodoo characters. Thinking that because the guy in the top hat night be Baron Samedi.
Let us know what they say.
Guilloche is engine turned patterning. It's frequently associated with enamel, but not of necessity.
partridge? (or grouse - not sure of the difference)
I only know what I've seen online. If it's going to be a $1K picture, then it makes sense to get a more informed opinion.
There are several similar items by Conrad Kiesel to be found inline, and the depictions seem consistent with his style in general. You could...
I think you showed these previously. Deborah suggested they were part of a 4 seasons set, which is most likely. I suggested the backgrounds were...
It's an attractive piece and Sevres style - I just don't think it's actually by Sevres.
I don't think it's Sevres. The mark is imitative and probably put there by the decorator. No idea who made the blank. The color is meant for...
A dead link on Google is titled "Child on Carp Fish in Lotus Ponds Signifying Fertility". Yours does seem to be holding a lotus flower.
I disagree. This is exactly the kind of minutiae that occupied the Nazis. Everything cultural and historical was of supreme importance to them...
I believe that American import laws required goods to be labeled with the American name of the country of origin. I can imagine the Nazi regime...
Wouldn't buy an ordinary house in Toronto.
[ATTACH] Could be Aeltest Volkstedter Porzellanfabrik, Volkstedt Germany, but the mark could be an imitation.
Show the sticks.
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