Welcome, Arcy. What are the measurements of your item? Is the piece attached to the seal solid, hollow, or does it have a hole through it?
The ring may be a carved amethyst. Could we see the back with the pin(s?) of the other piece?
Music in the Garden, serigraph: https://www.qart.com/p/edna-hibel/music-in-the-garden/178650 [IMG]
So they're claiming orthodoxy?
And here I was all ready to tell you, but you already knew.
How it is 'Strictly in accordance with the latest authors' is the mystery to me. Makes it sound like the latest biology textbook.
No this thread introduced me to her. My observations are that: the colors of your piece are much paler than others I saw browsing through search...
Some of it resembles 'Speed Writing'.
The critter looks more like a llama or alpaca to me.
I think it's an abbreviated, aide memoire, ritual book with the arrows indicating directions to face or turn, etc. & abbreviations of the wording....
I have known native New Yorkers to make the same error. Nearly played havoc one time when I was trying to settle on a place to meet with someone...
She's the only piece for which I have the original fitted box. She lives like a queen in blue velvet.
What did you scratch with? My gem book says jadeite is 6.5 - 7 on the Moh's scale & nephrite is 6 - 6.5.
:cat::sorry::(
I got to see these gems when they were available for inspection ahead of the sale & held the first one shown in my hand because the jasper was one...
Think yours is meant to mimic jade, also used by these cultures.
That is the web site of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), not MMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art....
He looks like many other men of his time. That is a seriously high end setting, similar to ones I've seen used for Louis Zoellner's work.
I only looked closely at a few of the things that come up first, but they all look more like the sort of thing the American Museum of Natural...
[IMG] Looks like this one is called 'Edna's Music', & this one is 'A Symphony of Art': [IMG]
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