Probably an amateur china painter working on a Tettau blank.
Thanks for letting me know. Hopefully the others wont be far behind.
I'm not seeing a picture, but given the description of candle and crucible, I wonder if it might be for sealing wax.
Is there an actual Fred Harvey connection here, or were you using that as a type? ******** Maybe the link just posted answers that, but I'll have...
Why would you have the flags of three different countries displayed together unless they represented some kind of pact? Somebody was hosting...
I'm torn between witless rambling and dancing my name.
I think it's a commercial grade of painting, not abjectly amateur. Your big problem is the damage.
I don't doubt that the Cupid and Psyche is a copy of the Minton. In addition to the fig leaf, the base is heavier and the modelling a bit simpler...
The Pandora looks pretty close to the Minton based on those links, but the Cupid and Psyche has telling differences in the modelling. The devil...
There's just something about this that looks 1930-ish to me, and what seems to me to be wrinkles suggests a lightweight paper stock. This seems...
luckylou got it. Good searching! Here's the Cointreau père et fils trademark: [ATTACH] If you search the name you can see several examples of...
Makes you wonder what else is out there. It's not unlike picking, isn't it? You want to be the one who recognizes what no one else saw, even...
So it's been lost in plain sight?
I had the matching ashtray, but it was also unmarked. [ATTACH]
This has been in our family since the event, but it is not our family. We know this photo as "The Gilmour Wedding". They were lumber barons....
Both the first and the last. I would guess the silver figures were added after the plating.
I do like that second, double-light piece best of those shown. Mmm. Positively tasty. The overall gilding makes me think the others were...
Quite the image.
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