A local convenience store is selling brand new, very colorful brooches with prong-set rhinestones. There's lesson there somewhere.
The diamond mark on this platter does not seem to me to be the usual mark. It lacks a lot of the information formalized in the diamond...
Here's a link to the design registration information I mentioned. It is downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet....
I think the number is 7064. I have that spreadsheet on English porcelain registration numbers and neither 7064, nor 7066 is on it. Maybe they...
Bottom is part of the reason, but the overall modelling doesn't seem precise enough for a commercial manufacturer. (At least not to me.)
Looks like studio pottery to me, but if that's a huge crack going across the bottom, I think it doesn't really matter.
People like those black cups, but my experience says $15 or so is the best you can expect. The blue and white above it looks interesting, but I...
Looking at those hats made me think of this CDV (dated 1891): [IMG] [IMG]
Here's a note on Velasquez’s “The Toilet of Venus” (“The Rokeby Venus”) that was attacked and slashed by a suffragette in 1914....
Here's a Van Dyke featured on the "Fake or Fortune" show (more than 1000 hrs spent on the restoration): Before: [IMG] After: [IMG]...
Komokwa: that second picture looks like it owes a lot to Clarence Gagnon.
The gold for those on the right looks to me like rose gold. The color of gold amalgams can be varied according to the other metals mixed in.
I don't know that it's fair to call it a copy of anything. It's a walking lion: it's bound to bear a resemblance to other walking lion figurines....
That's a lot of money.
How do you know it was a limited edition item?
Rontgen lists 4 marks for this company and they're willing to put more restricted dates on three of them, but this mark apparently spans the...
A look at the back of the canvas might be useful to people who know more than I.
Csn't help at all, but I like it. Very pastoral. I think the frame is a bit overwhelming but, given its condition, that should be on the way out...
I got this watercolor before Christmas but only just got around to taking photos (with which I am not happy). It’s very well painted. The...
Beats me! A link through a link through something I saw here. Supposedly some CIA secret think tank.
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