Too bad about the break. I see a skater like that, the first thought is Sonja Henie.
Looks to me like one panel from a larger composition. The way she is posed, I suspect she was looking to a neighboring panel showing a crucifixion.
If you have a reliable timeline, another piece from the same period would probably serve the purpose.
That jewelry! So much for old=crude.
I think it could be old. Looks like legitimate wear to the gilding.
(Every time I go searching for something like this I end up wanting to buy something.)
The picture is from Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783): "Girl with a Kitten" (1745) [ATTACH]
While it is best that photos be shown full size, thumbnails can be accessed more rapidly by clicking on the link beside the image - opens the...
There was an real Baron Münchhausen who was known as a raconteur of exaggerated yarns, but nothing like what they became in print. He sued the...
examples of signatures: https://www.artsignaturedictionary.com/artist/giuseppe.giardiello&browse=genuine That site doesn't open properly on my...
Bit of a stretch to call this art. It caught my eye online so I bought it (even after I knew what it was about). It's a small print. about 3...
The original of this figurine dates to 1919, but this example, with the same marks as OP's, dates to 1966: [ATTACH]...
This is one of those situations where pieces can stay in production indefinitely - so long as there's a demand. I don't know when the stamped mark...
Meissen: stamped "Böttger Steinzeug" (Bottger Stoneware).
Check Fenix, from South Africa.
Luv the candlesticks! Griffins?
I had a lecturer in an impressionist art course who was a leading expert on Van Gogh. When time came to discuss his work, she started talking...
A decorator mark, possibly Richard Websener.
Hours of hours upon very tedious practice... like doing scales on the piano. I knew a trucker who always signed his name in a copperplate hand....
You might find something under "cloud glass".
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