Looks dangerously top heavy for use as a candle holder. Is the well the right size for a taper?
I would have to go with the later end of the design period based on the departures from neoclassical norms of the figure in the medallion. The...
It's reading as ivory from here, but pix are not clear enough & close enough for a high level of confidence. It has not been used for smoking &...
I have been told they are also used for counting dots to check printing of images. I have several old magnifiers I think were for examining photo...
For me, drape, like a photographer might use.
Here's a cameo like yours with the back plate still on but brooch findings broken off. http://www/ebay.com/itm/383309693907 [ATTACH]
It's malachite. Small compared to other scholars stones I have seen, but those were chosen for museum displays, so maybe there were minis as...
She looks African-American or African-another 'New World' country to me. I think that background is subliminally making people think of bamboo &...
Just because it is black does not mean it was part of the fashion for mourning jewellery, which started in emulation of Queen Victoria after...
Cameo appears to be glass. Figure may be 'applied', i.e., glued on. Probably Czech.
I was trying to figure out from your first photo what the obviously organic material was, then read on. Love it! I collected fungi like this...
Toothpick box?
I can't see the cameo well enough to have much idea about. It's obviously meant to look like jet. Whether it is or not...? A view of the back...
Could be Nekhbet rather than an eagle, but it does not look like Egyptian metal work to me. More Middle East.
Well, now the name as I see it is Ι. ΔΟΑΤΖΗΣ, I. Doatzis, which is turning out to be absolutely useless as a search term. Maybe SOS will have a...
Part of the butter making process is to paddle it, to squeeze out the last of the buttermilk. The grooves would have allowed the liquid to run...
Marcasite lily of the valley brooches seem to have been a type. Finding various European made ones but not with known maker. E.g....
Are these the trickster critters I think are probably red pandas? [IMG]
What big teeth you have, Grandma!
The mixed character of eyes, ears, nose & teeth is what makes me think something mythical.
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