I have a pair that I've offered for $40 with no takers.
Someone influenced by Bernard Buffet.
The Swiss (and others) sometimes put fake French marks on their boxes. At the time, France was considered the epicenter of box production. But...
It is a beautiful binding, and I would agree that is where any value lies. People do buy books specifically because of the binding.
Depends on whether or not the scene is religious. It involves bare breasts, so some will always see it as erotic. I'm confident that notion was...
Usually the images on snuff boxes (or similar) can be traced to other sources, frequently engravings. Sometimes they can be a pastiche from...
Makes your mouth water just reading the descriptions, doesn't it. Early boxes used for snuff (16th C - 17th C) may not have been hinged, but...
Is there a label or signature?
I don't think it's a snuff box. Pretty much by definition, snuff boxes have hinged lids. There are plenty of similarly sized boxes used for any...
One of the things I like about vinaigrettes is the pierced grill inside. Those can be very fancy. I think it's likely someone else had the same...
Maybe Elena's daughter, Princess Mafalda of Savoy.
I would guess that most of the color is fired-on enamel, but final details (such as the faces) were added in cold paint after the firing. Cold...
Bears a resemblance to Sofia Loren. There was a Leon Basile Perrault, but he died (1908) long before this was painted. Looks like 1950s-'60s. I...
I found this online: [ATTACH] Pinterest shows this as an Italian 800 silver compact. There might be more info at one of these links:...
It doesn't give me a sense of French, Swiss, German, or British, but I could easily be wrong, and there are a lot of other countries that all...
That is very ornate. My very wild guess will be Italian, and late 19th/early 20th C, meant more for display than use. I like snuff boxes and...
I would guess another itinerant portraitist effort. It has a surreal quality to my eye, almost as if the face is floating in front of the rest.
Rontgen shows the mark as C.M. Hutschenreuther, c1928, but also says it's a decorator mark (so I don't know what to make of that).
I guess it would be called satin glass.
The Lindisfarne Gospels (8th C) are well-enough known. [ATTACH]
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