Sniped! I wonder if Dorothy carried one of these maps in her basket.
Lenci might be another name to check.
The first is an engraving by Antonio Verico after a design by Guglielmo Silvestri, and probably out of a book. Not much value. Not sure of the...
There's so much ersatz Duncan Phyfe out there it's easy to forget that at one time there was an actual Duncan Phyfe.
Google can be unforgiving.
I think it's beautiful. A sun bonnet? Just the look of the thick and thin threads in the cap make me think they might be hand spun. I'll be...
My guess is that that is not Christ, but either one of the thieves crucified at the same time or some saint, and probably taken from a larger group.
I though ferner was someone born elsewhere, but that aside I would guess Victorian, though it does show empire influence.
Like blooey, my first thought was Dutch, but I have no idea where I picked up that idea.
Just the face on that makes me think it's from the '60s. A brave attempt at rococo for the framing, but it doesn't ring true to me.
Is that a pendulum?
Certainly the first looks like a steel plate engraving, the others could be a different reproduction technique (and I could be wrong about the...
No maker's mark? Just first impressions (without having searched or anything): if they were a "name" set, I would expect the imagery to be more...
Try searching "torus" decanter. (I wouldn't discount Venetian.)
Beautiful design.
Fantasy item. Nothing about it is convincing.
It belonged to the House of Savoy. They're still around.
There are any number of possibilities. It could be that old and redecorated. It could be that old and by someone unknown working in the same...
If it was confiscated by the German's, would it not rightfully belong to the family from whom it was confiscated?
I see pieces like this called "wine cisterns" - filled with cold water and ice to cool multiple bottles of wine.
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