My grandfather was a fisherman and I watched him cleaning a catch of cod one day. He kept putting little pieces off to one side and I asked him...
I wonder if a silk screen could leave textures like that. Here's an extreme close up from a silk screened print I have (not by Husain): [ATTACH]
I think the scene is Kizhi Pogost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizhi_Pogost I did find one auction record for a watercolor by an L....
There's not a mark on top of the base, just behind the stump?
The character is Pierrot from the Commedia dell'Arte.
Size? Do they feel light? It's just that home crafters did stuff like this with Holland Molds and such. Those ones are usually about 9-12" high.
The book "Phytanthoza iconographia" had more than 1000 plates and was put together 1737-45. So sometime in that period. Weinmann didn't do the...
I think you may find an answer here, though it's not immediately obvious to me:...
The design in the square bit is a monogram - O M A - or some other arrangement of those letters.
hors d'oeuvres set?
Yes. Looks like it was done with something like a Dremel tool. At that size, I would guess a pill box, but with those masks, you have to wonder...
Very pretty.
I think that bit on the printing would be considered a colophon. The following text is more promtional. I had to look up "nihil obstat" - (in...
Does it have a colophon? Something about the printing on the last page or two? Sometimes private presses or special printings will have that.
Wasn't there a kitten who hung out with Felix?
I'm going to ask about these again, to see if new faces have anything to add. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I read somewhere just recently that the prices on fine china were dropping because dinner parties are a thing of the past. No one "dines"...
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It's difficult to tell from photographs since water color is so generally lacking in 3 dimensionality. If the things like white lines were added...
Somewhere I have a U.S. dollar with Jimi Hendrix's face on it, a novelty I picked up in Niagara Falls.
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