:hilarious::hilarious: I've had that brain.
Fourth is a carved bone Celtic knot with what looks like smoky quartz.
Second one is a druzy quartz formation. Can't tell what color the trillion cut stone is. Could be aquamarine, blue topaz, doctored quartz....
To recap: https://www.proantic.com/en/display.php?mode=obj&id=595785 [IMG] Samson Paris 19th century "Polychrome porcelain. Mark: crossed...
Leda & the Swan.
The Vatican is not in Venice. St. Mark's, perhaps?
An appraisal could cost you more than it's worth. You have good terms now for describing it. When in doubt about the value of an item, an...
You too, Bou. :kiss:
Those chain are generic. I must have a number of them around here on various brooches, none of them lover's eye or anything like this one.
It looks like costume to me, but we have members who know jewellery much better than I do. Hopefully they'll weigh in.
Corection: Consistent with amber. I had ivory on the brain as one of the materials that seems to absorb the light.
:hilarious::rolleyes:
Second position of the feet with very good turnout? (Ballet terminology.)
Yeah, his feet did not get full attention. Is what you see as a tail what we think is a sword in its sheath?
Trick of the angle/lighting in first photo. Looked flat to me. You're correct, rose cut.
Word of the day: prognathous.
Right tail, wrong feet. Wrong pretty much everything else. The things in the hands don't go with Pan at all. I think this was made somewhere,...
Or maybe lizard, heading downward?
He's been at this for years now & I can't see his cameos are getting any better. But his claims for the virtues of cameos have grown more grandiose.
The construction of your brooch & the one INH found are so much alike, I'm thinking maybe yours was also meant to have a gemstone at the center....
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