Good job on the details, but I can't help much. This is a job for the Graphics Atlas. I don't think it's an intaglio process, despite the plate...
I don't know, according to that article it was found in the grave of an infant and traces that could be identified as milk were found in it. A...
That unpolished, coarsely ground grey finish can indicate that the piece is modern and Chinese.
The second Sandow image immediately calls to mind "The Dying Gaul": [ATTACH] You might even argue a facial resemblance [ATTACH] Maybe "The Gaul...
You might look at images by Nicolas Lavreince (Niklas Lafrensen), a Swedish painter who liked this type of scene. Seems quite a few of his...
Here's what I'm looking at: [ATTACH] And here it is compared to a clearer example of a Conta & Boehme mark: [ATTACH] Also, the style of the...
These are not Meissen. Is this a mark, or just a blip in the porcelain? [ATTACH] They could be Conta & Boehme.
It looks to me like a racing dog. Maybe a whippet? Is that thing in its mouth whatever they're set to chase?
You're right, and my apologies to sabre123 for the incorrect attribution.
Can you find other Ludwigsburg marks that have the same treatment? It's almost as if the mark is being treated as a seal.
There seems to be a copy currently listed on eBay France for 40 Euros. It looks to be in better condition than yours....
I've come across that mark somewhere. Maybe Worcester?
published by Antoine Augustin Renouard in 1817 It was published in two volumes, and 1817 was the original publication date according to this...
I think a Ludwigsburg mark would be under glaze. Is that a glazed patch in the center of a bisque patch? I'm not quite certain what I'm seeing.
I don't have anything to add. I'm getting a vague impression that the seal may be associated with a guild, the flanking initials identifying a...
Anybody watching the History of Country Music on PBS? It's very good.
I think the image Jivvy found is the original. OP's is a greatly simplified rendition.
Not the same, but it reminds me of an MC Escher print: [IMG]
Hay-rake and grain thresher. I'm gonna guess one of the four seasons (again).
Medical (quackery/folk)? Weren't suction cups once applied to a body to draw out illness. It does look like there may be more than one function...
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