Sewing machine or other small contraption that way? Just a wild guess.
Thank you, trying to catch up a little & keep up with the latest. Only just saw this, gave a lift to my day. :kiss::kiss:
I agree it's hand painted, but it looks professional to me. Bavarian china, something like this one (these links don't always work):...
They say it is part of the PU test series. My Italian is not good enough to make a guess as to what PU stood for. They also say the example they...
And this one with less purple & more gold:...
I was still messing around while you got it done.
Since I had not heard of this maker I of course googled it. Barovier's output appears to have been quite varied, but nothing the search showed me...
Just a general remark: this strikes me as such an elaborate piece of glass making, it is hard to imagine that anyone could make convincing fakes &...
Since it is labeled as Fidelity, the carver had a dog in mind for the animal, but it owes a lot to the Allegory of Innocence: [ATTACH] Cameos of...
* Not strictly true. When I look at some of the lists I have saved for Rome in the 1860s, the name Boschetti does appear as a mosaicist. Nothing...
Great researching, Sunny. And thanks for providing the link to the source. These tourists guides are the main way we know about cameists,...
She might be gold wash over silver. I'd put her mid 20s - mid 30s, based on both style of cameo & style of mount.
Has the guy twisted in the frame? If that were suspended as a pendant, he would be hanging at an angle. Can he be twisted back to upright? Just...
The guidance for tagua sounds pretty similar to that for ivory, both natural, porous substances.
One commentator I heard pointed out that a red flag should have been that French workmen were working on Sunday. But they seem to have done the...
When I was trying to decide whether or not to use glass when framing an oil, the info I found on line said not to use glass if you're not sure the...
Could it be tagua nut?
So vermeil a possibility.
Just noticed you have 2, although one looks like it might be reverse carved or intaglio.
I just wanted to be able to compare without going back & forth between pages: [ATTACH] Quite a difference, n'est-ce pas? It almost looks as...
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