Yes, 2 seahorses. The other has a dolphin. Maybe he has speared a squid?
What Brad said. The paunchy one, like a silenus of the sea, could be Nereus.
The motto on the examples above looks a bit odd because it is written in lower case Greek. This is easier to make out: [ATTACH] I'm getting...
They might almost be mushrooms on the verge of popping open. Although the spores must still be there, once, & once only, had magical (no, not...
A rose by any other name... Is it a certainty that both parts started out together? The lady would work well as a lamp base & the bowl can...
I'm a sucker for almost anything with an iris design, so quite envious. :)
Love it. Does it not need a handle to be a bride's basket? Guess I might consider this a compote, if I had to put a word to it without any prior...
Could the loop fit over a button? Approx. how long is the chain? One could see some Christian symbolism here, but I don't know if that is what...
As a non-specialist, if I saw something described as Parian ware, I would know to expect it to look like Parian marble, even though experts might...
Think it could be considered Parian ware.
There are even a ton of cameos of Pius IX. [ATTACH]
The photo of the back popped up first on my screen & I was going to guess Kokopelli, but from front looks more like an Indian temple figure. @Any...
The item in the first pic reminds me of micromosaic lute brooches you find as souvenirs of Italy.
Blue john, a kind of agate, would be my guess, but we have some real fans who may have a different opinion.
I would go with the 'blackamoor' description. Are they candle holders? They remind me of the torch bearing figures that were popular newel post...
I have had some truly eerie encounters with a python at the zoo that made me wonder about myself. I'd probably be in Ravenclaw with Luna.
An interesting tie in from the Wiki article on Alexandra: Occasionally, Hans Christian Andersen was invited to call [at Alexandra's childhood...
I think this would be Alexandra, the Queen Mother. So from between Edward's death in 1910 & her own in 1925.
Cool... a new word & a new image that interconnects Medieval romance, the Bible & freemasonry. My kind of of thing. I really like the figure on...
After the tenant next door died, the apartment was left unlocked with anything the family did not take still inside. I helped myself to a...
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