I had a pretty fruitful search with "road to Calvary".
Walking stick was my first thought. The kind that is more of a stylish accessory, not something really meant to support weight.
This is your figure but not your maker: https://www.rubylane.com/item/321389-00937/D-S-R-French-Jesus-Metal Must be a source work they both...
She's definitely hardstone. It always baffles me when sellers, who have the piece in hand, can't tell the difference between stone & shell. It's...
Great photo. Feel as though I have seen it before, but don't know who it belongs to. I read it as M/t, do you?
The cameos are quite interesting. Damage & grime make it hard to see if they are exact mirror images of one another. If they are, have to think...
At least one can understand how Ceres could get covered in dirt! No immediate take on the signature, although think it definitely is one. I'm...
As I recall, a search for 'drunk monk painting' turns up what appears to be its own little genre.
https://www.winterthur.org/
A monkey crossed with a platypus?
Guessing there's also a figure 8 safety clasp on the side of the box clasp? And does it also have the standard safety feature of a 2 step process...
I'm seeing something like 22nd Biennial Congress... at the start of the writing.
Is it possible the rider & reins were added to a brooch that was originally just the fish? I find it very odd that the figure straddles his...
It's my impression that these navette shaped cameos were popular in the early 20th century. She looks inspired by the Herculaneum dancers.
She's kind of a generic figure to whom various attributes can be added: flowers; grapes; crescent.
The word 'heishi' is coming to mind.
Sold by a male descendant who had no idea about it. It's in a cheap little brass easel mount, so I suppose he didn't see much value in it....
It didn't work for lots of us. The security certificate for the site expired & was not renewed until about a week later. Browsers saw it as a...
Just the way it is. And you know she is Thorvaldsen's Day: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/day-and-night?start=2
I get that same melancholy feeling from seeing old photos of newlyweds, studio portraits of children, etc. I started doing Pinterest in large...
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