It's Croatian.
二 = two 心 = heart 合 = fit, join, add up to, be equal 一 = one In either Chinese or Japanese it means along the same lines of 'two hearts joined as...
That's not a signature, it's the title of the piece. He does many works like this style and in this same medium.
I just made this same comment on another post which has a vase witht he same characters. It looks like these Chinese characters to me. 年製 康熈 Which...
The artists name is Bogdan Jovana Kršić who was a Serbian artist. bakropis/akvatinta just means etching / aquatint As for the title of the piece,...
It looks like these characters to me. 年製 康熈 Which is their system for establishing which time period it came from, this being Kangxi.
Interestingly, there is this painting by Larry Ashe, Oil painting from 1985. A remarkably similar painting, though the signature is clearly not...
I think I agree with Marta Faria on the first and last characters, and the second character, being the upside trident, appears to be a...
Are we are a society really now so evolved and high and mighty and advanced when we produce the like of this as a fashion craze...? ;)[IMG] All...
OMG i haaaate neckties. lol Though yes, historically speaking, it is females who are subject to many detrimental actions. Male-dominated...
I don't believe it was done for that reason. Many people in China in that era were extremely poor and had little to no life prospects for getting...
Thankfully, it is an illegal practice these days. Going back in my family tree, I had a relative with such bound feet. I feel nothing but...
I like how everything is written in old looking text and then the writing under the packing list is in a modern-day font. Alas for you such...
No problem :happy: Glad to help and nice to hear a reply back as well, as we don't always get that after the answer is given.
This is the culture where the mythological creature known as the Minotaur originates, portrayed in Classical times with the head and tail of a...
How about showing us the MMA stamp. Compare it with the MMA stamp placed on items from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Their stamp signifies...
Minoan-Mycenaean Jewellery circa 1600 B.C.E. Knossos palace. Heracleon museum. Crete. [IMG][IMG][IMG]
True enough, but it can have other purposes, such as structurally supporting the shape of the wood, as komokwa mentioned, some wood can warp, or...
No, I don't believe so. The piece of wood on the underside of the lid is a common fixture in many types of lidded bowls of this nature, merely as...
Well, thus far I stand by my original thought, that this is a censer. The bowl is made in segmented panels of wood. This is a complicated way of...
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