Beautiful beads, KSW. Clasp certainly looks like an early version of the type, but I don't know when they were introduced. Early safety clasps...
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Often called a fern stand.
That one sold for $400, so looks like connoisseurs accepted it as genuine Mary Gregory.
You should have no trouble finding info on Mary Gregory on the Internet. It's the decoration that is being described as being by her or in her...
They have record of her complaining about it late in her career when she also enlisted some help in the studio. Program gave quite a bit of her...
Maybe this guy? https://www.askart.com/artist/Amedeo_Boschetti/11090175/Amedeo_Boschetti.aspx http://www.artnet.com/artists/amedeo-boschetti/
I'm seeing Boschette, but then I'm always seeing things that aren't there.
Was just hearing on the BBC sometime overnight that the painter Artemisia Gentileschi used her own face instead of a model.
What is the motto on the epaulet badges? Facia cum Ho___.
As KSW said, this piece debuted on the cameo thread. There we agreed the figure is most likely glass. Since it is usually easier to affix like...
He should know better.
How old is Gary Pe?
A guy in drag? I see lots of cameos in which the relationship of turned head to shoulder is improbable. Getting it right separates the artists...
My goodness! The setting is positively baroque & more interesting than the cameo. You are probably correct that a couple of stones or maybe...
Opening bid 200 EUR. I think not. [IMG]
Welcome, Simon. You definitely sound like one of us. Do you pronounce your member name as sigh bligh?
This ring really does defy description: http://www.ebay.com/itm/153844944108 [IMG]
Schreger lines are only visible in cross sections of tusk. This has naturally been carved going along the length of the tusk, which has a grain...
Adam, please select full size for your images. [IMG] The pottery folks will want to see the bottom, even if unmarked.
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