I would guess late 19th/early 20th C and would look to a Germanic source as well. To me it had a Wagnerian sensibility. Are you certain it's a...
The box looks like pyrography. Possibly a glove box.
They still make them. I have this tin from Lebkuchen-Schmidt in Nuremberg, 2008: [ATTACH] It's big: more than 16" long. That's a lot of...
I'm not tied at the hip to it. It was just an initial impression.
It's unlikely to be anyone famous. Most portraits aren't. When I said Whistler, I was thinking more stylistically than in terms of the sitter.
You know what I think it reminds me of? Velasquez' self portrait in Las Meninas: [ATTACH] So, sort of, nothing to do with anything really.
This looks very familiar to me, but I can't pin it down. The name that popped into my mind was Whistler.
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This looks very much an amateur effort and may be a copy of some other painting, possibly from a print or reproduction. It is unlikely you will...
The discrepancies between Torkel's painting and other images of the same subject may suggest that this naive painting was based more on an oral...
That long facade was called the Palazzata, completed in the late 17thC and destroyed by an earthquake in 1783. At that time, the event was seen...
Ivorytype is a new one to me.
I think the front decoration is original. Don't see why not. It looks like that ship is done on leather?
It does have a sort-of radio console look to it. I can see it being 1920s as well. That said, it might be earlier. My other impression was...
Could the glass vase be Pallme Konig? I ask because of similarity in treatment to this: [ATTACH]
Can't help but feel that a very similar image has been on these boards before.
I doubt you'll find this person. Could be a depiction of the Hindu god, Brahma, who has 4 faces. Could be by or for some tourist.
I don't think they are Meissen because they don't look to me to be Meissen style.
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