You may be able to tell which surface the painting is on by examining it from the side.
OMG Did an eBay search for marble plaque -table -lamp between $40 - 500 Their stuff is just everywhere, rarely correctly recognized as...
Thank you. :kiss: Not sure a couple of sellers will think I'm needed on eBay. They each have one of those resin cameos of a woman holding a...
What's going on with the guard chain? The pin has a blunt tip. Was it meant to be put through a buttonhole?
Then someone was very lucking in finding something that could be made to fit that frame so well.
I assumed it is not, based on other painted MOP pieces I have seen, but admit from these photos I can't say with certainty. No reason a reverse...
When looking for coral, don't forget to check 'corral'. This one of Pliny's Doves isn't even any kind of coral, so double error:...
How would you do this with MOP? It has been crimped in at a number of spots. I think it's more likely the MOP plaque came loose or fell out...
I like the mount; simple but unusual. Does the metal have that same rosy tint as it does in the first 2 pix? Low karat rose gold a possibility....
Lava is soft, porous, easy to carve, prone to damage. Think it may sometimes crack spontaneously due to dryness. This mottled Saturn definitely...
I did, but this is not my field.
This is Kauffmann as a cameo, from a self portrait. She has styled herself as a sibyl, representing Hope. [ATTACH]
Evidently she painted the scene more than once. This looks to be the original for the engraving:...
I tend to agree with this, I have a framed print that belonged to my grandmother. Found after she died, no one remembered seeing it in the home...
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I have only seen the C/K substitution with Angelika/Angelica, not Kauffmann/Cauffmann.
The glass dauber is attached where it should be, but you should be able to pick it up by the wreath finial without all the floral decoration...
I was typing even as evelyb30 was posting. Not sure you guys need me anymore, you've been doing very well among you. Sometimes lava cameos have...
Dante Alighieri, in lava. :)
Lalique & His Contemporaries [IMG]
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