En tremblant pieces are really fun. I love them but don't yet own one. I love jewelry that has an added surprise or convertible aspect.
Definitely real coral. You can tell by the patterning, but also the texture. Coral and shell have little striation patterns on them when you look...
Here's a Morning Glory Antiques page on watch jewelry that shows watch pins (with hooks on back) and a photo of a woman wearing one over her right...
The last one you posted has a lever locking clasp, which is appropriate to the period. I've bought so many antique brooches with replacement...
Definitely looks like cut steel. Perhaps an en Tremblant brooch if the tail is supposed to move while wearing. Some were made with hair clips as well.
Congratulations on your haul! I like the acanthus leaf silver brooch and gold swirl brooch best. The leaf brooch looks like it may be a monogram?...
Not surprised, myself. Sculpture in general is not cheap, and neither is good carving. Beautiful, sometimes complex carving forms in his work....
It should be very easy to take out of that frame. If you're keeping it, it should be reframed with non-acidic and uv-protective materials. The...
This is a really nice piece. I really enjoy it's forms.
Perhaps more cartoon than illustration, given the subject matter. A Catholic Mendicant order member shocked at a pagan saytr and putti?
Somebody's great grans spent a lot on these and a descendant thought enough of them to update them....and then someone probably hid them and never...
See if there's a bit of a line between the 18k and 22k on the side, and that will probably cinch it that the whole back is a replacement. They're...
....I do! But I do a lot of events where I wear big rings that aren't "every day". 1/4000 is definitely a gimmick, but I would lean into it in my...
These are so, SO stunning! What an amazing and lucky find!!! The tessera are so creatively and well done in those portraits and borders....
Thanks Debora! A 12 then 5 makes not a whole lot more sense to me. Perhaps a series? The archive is for a photographer who took photo portraits of...
I like their use of color. There is a lot of fussiness with their brush strokes. Lots of short strokes usually points to someone still learning.
He's really beautiful. Designed well. Looks more like a stone than glass to me.
He has a fabulous signature. Middle name letter might be an N or M given the flair of the M in Morgan. It looks like he was a hobbiest painter.
Ring guy seems sparing in his depiction in general with not the most spot on anatomy so I looked for nose, longer hair, and laurels. It's always a...
I'm going to say William III as seen here by Wedgwood. An English ring should have hallmarks if gold, but maybe they're worn or it was set...
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