Maybe it held 5ยข cigars. Drop your nickel in the bowl and take a cigar and a match.
It was a company called Aelteste Volkstedter Pozellanfabric Triebner & Co. from the first decade or two of the 1900s.
There's a full scale plaster maquette of that statue in the Art Gallery of Ontario (and another in the Tate). Moore gave a large number of...
Joseph Addison, 1711, "Exercise of the Fan": http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/spectator/text/june1711/no102.html And some follow-up comments:...
Yes, that last photo does look like brazing. I think Komo might have it.
I like it, but I'm having a difficult time getting a sense of how it actually looks... not getting a sense of intentional form. Maybe a bit of...
Stylistically, I'd say Empire, but I don't really understand your question. If it's a reproduction, it's never been anything other than a...
They seem naive to me, in the same class as samplers, but that's all I've got.
Crematory urn?
For origin, my first impression was Oceania... New Zealand, New Guinea... like that. Just a guess.
Obviously catching up here. I think it's probable that the two Duchesses are copies, but the man might be original and, at an idle guess, early...
Jeez Louis, color me green with envy. That center miniature in particular.
Having it vary with nationality makes sense.
"Gingerbread" I've heard that called, and work of that magnitude would overwhelm a fret saw. But you know how it goes... sometimes common usage...
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