It looks like quite high quality costume jewellery to me. I'm not much for yellow, but like this. And yes, that bar & bow shape would be great...
Does the mark say 'made in Spain'? Love the squid, that's all I know.
Yeah, after it was carved. Should be reported for cameo abuse.
She is indeed conch shell. The distribution of pink is highly variable. I have 1 in a ring that is almost totally white. She appears to be...
International sign for No Bozos, a reaction to the forked woman wearing clogs. Honestly, how do these things survive?
Welcome, Catherine. By any chance, are you related to the John Tyrrell who bought a large number of Poniatowski gems in 1839?...
Last name could be Famus.
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The main body of the wand looks like it could be a beryl crystal.
It's a double flute, not a syrinx. Does this mean the rest of it is slightly magnetic, not magnetic at all...? This is a different one:...
Maybe she's wearing clogs? Someone lugged that home from Naples.
Whatever it was made to be, I don't think it is > 100 years old. Just my uneducated opinion.
My bad, as they say. Did not take note of size. So a mini-crock. Do mustard & other condiment pots always have an opening for the spoon?
Agree that the lady is ceramic. I see her now & then, usually as a brooch, because people end up calling these cameos. It is possible these are...
I would have called it a crock. Not being a pottery person, I don't see what there is about it that looks particularly old. This looks to me...
If the side with the broken off end matches the side with the other side of the clasp, probably all that's missing is the tongue side of the clasp...
Last name could be Laate. Some of them are jewellers. There's a Danette, but she does fetishes. Phyllis was a jeweller.
He looks rather crammed in there & has broken along the left edge. Think he has been filed down to size & glued in. Probably was quite an...
Think I see 8 feet in the painting, which ones do you mean? Wonder if it wasn't undertaken as an exercise in perspective as much as anything.
Back to the painting. My sense is that it is advanced student copy of a work from the period portrayed. Even Picasso painted copies of the Old...
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