I think he's the Genius of Light moved forward from his place in the fresco over the horses.
The figures are classical Greek in style. Maenads, the female followers of the wine god Dionysus (Roman bacchantes/Bacchus.) Not uncommon...
I'd clear off space on the table for anything from the Miseroni workshop.
It's easy to imagine that she might have been given these as gifts, perhaps 1 when she turned 18, others as engagement or wedding anniversary...
Suspiciously like the lead figure in this well known fresco by Guido Reni: [ATTACH] I have a couple of cameos like her: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Welcome, Merry. How nice to have these handed down to you. The cameo who is wearing a necklace herself is said to be en habillé, dressed. These...
Miriam Makeba was fabulous. How gorgeous she was when she began to appear with a shaved head was a revelation to me. Along with Harry Belafonte,...
Just took a look at their page on this. It's really for fine jewellery, as a way of backing up seller's representation when it comes to precious...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] These turn up on the market as Aurora, but it seems clear to me that Schmidt knew it was Iris, sort...
Think it could well be, although every carved opal you see is tentatively attributed to him. But the way the opal & matrix are used here is...
Just to pile on, freshwater pearls & quartz chips.
I was watching this & thought it sold for something like 40,000 GBP, or substantially below estimate anyway. See now the listing says 'Amended'....
Not citrine, which is yellow-orange. Hard to tell about these because they are strung on red thread, which is making them look more red than they...
Not really. Can you tell whether she has been glued or the glass fused to glass? Can you catch a fingernail at the line where the 2 colors meet?...
You have characterized her very well. She is glass, assembled from 2 pieces. Those fissures in the surface strike me as being like what happens...
Yes, to me too, he wants an audience. I'm just mulling the presentation of this letter as evidence that cameo we were investigating is the cameo...
Think it's AVL for Avril, April. One more line & you'd have the mark of the Deathly Hallows!
As a Yank, the intricacies of royal protocol never cease to amaze, but does not sound like anything the Prince was expecting. And it seems to be...
Suspect your black sand is the remains of a foam rubber type material.
Usually signals Cleopatra.
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