We have not been in contact in quite a long time now, but when Jivvy & I were chitchatting around the time she withdrew from the site there did...
From the title I was picturing a mass of shards on the floor.
Agree on all points. The black background may well be black onyx, an assembled piece like this needs sturdy components. But glass can't be ruled...
I have a beginner's gold testing kit which I never began to use, so I'm no expert, just raising questions someone more knowledgeable might ask....
Definitely French eagle 18k mark & a teeny little lozenge shaped maker's mark that we're never going to figure out. You're correct that the...
This would explain why all the photos are too out of focus really to render a solid opinion. In the one that's best I see some fine parallel...
The engraver was Johann Heinrich Schepp (the F is for fecit, Latin for 'he made [it]). The list of his award & commemorative medals is extensive....
Oh, I knew they were very tentative IDs, I'm just not ready to go even that far. Except that it's wrong in every detail, the only part of the...
She gives 'birth' to Pegasus & Chrysaor, who emerge from her neck after Perseus lops off her head.
Please do let us know what the verdict is if you do get an expert opinion. This one is really interesting.
Ah, thank you for the correction. Without the rest of the line, I was reading it as being in the present tense.
I would love to see these 2 in their entirety. [ATTACH]
It should be I BEAR YOU, not I BARE YOU.
Thank you. It's harder knowing what to make of something like this than of the genuine article.
@Snowman Cometh MEDUSA PSYCHE I like the Medusa, even though I 'm generally not attracted to modern work. Hey, as I said to a friend who...
This is almost literally making my head spin. Do I count 3 figures heading out from each side of the handle, separated by a figure on a plinth,...
This was really interesting, the way paintings from different countries tended to show a characteristic craquelure. This one still looks far too...
On another look, I think the figures were cast along with the rest of it. So far have not been able to make any sense of it. Often it is little...
The way the craqelure has developed in parallel lines that way looks very wrong to me, but this is far out of my field, so others may educate me.
In the world of bronze oinoche, as supplied by Google, your vessel is unusual in 2 things: the color of the patina, so olive green with no hint of...
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