Just to see how it would look: [ATTACH] Can't help with the foundry mark. These bronze & ivory figures seem to date largely to the 1920s, often...
I keep thinking it's Uncle Pennybags, aka Mr. Monopoly. [IMG]
It really is strikingly plain. Here are others in that mandolin shape.
Liz Claiborne.
I can't tell you anything about it, but it's a wonderful chair & well worth restoring.
The top one says Barbecue (bar-B-Q). Think maybe the other is a round UP, roundup?
Made with polymer clay, I suspect.
Seems androgynous at first glance, but when I look at the curves of the belly & thigh outlined by the sheer material of the shift, I have to think...
The one Wedgwood reference I have calls this scene "Venus Hiding Cupids [sic] Arrows". Venus is usually depicted in a greater degree of undress....
The scene on the side you show is their Coriolanus design.
I love it too. The men sort of look like commedia dell'arte figures.
LOL Didn't squint at it hard enough. Looked like old German script to me.
What makes it American?
The design screams 1970s. Uncas rings I have seen were silver, with glass or other artificial 'stone'.
These were big 1967/68 & did not pretend to botanical accuracy.
Don't think a table lamp made even today would have a grounded plug. It would have a polarized plug, one that fits into the outlet in only one...
I definitely see molded resin meant to look like wood. Resin is quite heavy.
And of Ronnie.
It's thought that nearly all representations of Cleopatra are idealized. There are coins on which she & Antony look very much alike; her image...
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