You can turn your own cannon.
I hope it's the bargain it appears to be.
You would hope they're colored etchings, but I can't tell from the photos. The plate impression is rough, almost tearing the paper. That...
I do like it. It looks like glazed ceramic to me. Want to thhink it's pre-WWII, but I don't hink there's any sure way to know. I think the base...
Wipe it down with bourbon.
On the chair: if you took a Recamier and chopped off an end, it might look like that. Might have been made en suite with a chaise longue.
The Coppertone girl was Jodie Foster.
This doesn't have the look of production furniture. Have you checked it thoroughly for any maker's or retailer's mark?
There's a lot of Aesthetic, but I think there's a lot of classicism as well. To me, the asymmetry of the shelves is Japanese, but Japonism...
That's a nice table. Eclectic design influences.
Well, geez... that was unexpected. But now you'll have to come back and say whether it's boom or bust.
A fictional novel about a man who creates a memorable old-master fraud: "What's Bred in the Bone" by Robertson Davies.
Not me. Idle guess would be soapstone.
An interesting discussion.
Does suggest it isn't recent.
I think it's been a while since "Eskimo" was an acceptable description.
Most of the research was genealogical, wasn't it? It's that 7-degrees-of-separation thing. I wonder if the painting was ever cleaned. That's...
I apologize for missing your reference to the size in your first post.
"A young Mother", Maud Stumm (1866-1935), Nantucket. Stumm was the better painter.
That indent makes me think newer as well. You can't tell the age of Wedgwood by the motifs used. I wouldn't be surprised if the 94 was 1994.
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