A shepherd carrying a sickle?
Scratches, I think. [ATTACH]
Soler, not Solar. It was incorporated in Puerto Rico. The title on the Last Supper looks like Italian to me, unless the words are the same in...
Lab sapphire or kyanite would be my guesses. It's not the blue of blue topaz or blue tourmaline. The cut of the stone is unusual.
You are correct that it is not a traditional fetish in the sense of an object invested with spiritual power. This one looks like Zuni work, made...
Perhaps a temple dancer?
Getting my Roscoes muddled. William was the father of Edward, father-in-law of Margaret. She died in 1840. The important date is when Italian...
Are you asking about the date of the monument? William Roscoe died in 1831. It takes some years to get together the design, the permissions, the...
The number 1825 is scratched into the back. Numbers can be dealers' inventory numbers, pawnbrokers' numbers, repair shop numbers... In the big...
There are so many variants & the image is so popular, this is one of the first subjects I put up:...
Artemis/Diana it is. Always a good goddess to have with you.
I have. And I love looking at the jewellery from antiquity. I always think, We've never done it any better.
I knew someone who looked like this: [ATTACH]
My first reaction was some kind of dendritic jasper (agate is translucent) but those places that look like worm holes make me wonder if it's not...
A jeweller/dealer is only going to offer you half or less of what they think they can sell it for.
Great work! That is no doubt the inspiration. The cameo has so many details, have to wonder if there's not another painting out there that is...
No, the cameo & the mount are contemporaneous. What you're noticing is one of the clues to its age & origin. Large, beautiful shell cameos in...
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
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@mirana @PepperAnna @bluumz I need all the guns on this one. What a marvelous piece! I do not know what the source of the image is, if it is...
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