Anyone know what's going on in this scene? My sense is that it is children playing at a battle game, or whacking at each other with party...
Always. Just not always good ones.
Could be for a watch, if you wanted it to be, but I think this is a day/night piece & the hook is meant for a removable pendant. Another cameo, a...
Lovely, & so nice to have Hermione's personal connection. (And I appreciate having an example of my contention that sometimes names on cameos are...
I'm just tap dancing here, partly going on things I've learned from previous threads. It's certainly way too large to have ever been what we...
Does not look incongruous to me. What do you see that makes you think so?
It really could use a matching jardiniere: [IMG] https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/42763300_rorstrand-jardiniere-and-stand Sold for $300.
This lot was passed up in this auction: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/pair-of-rorstrand-majolica-bust-pedestals-200-c-60d4fdd86e# [IMG]
Not a whole lot of help:...
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Ah, moon flask.
I'm not quarreling, just clarifying. What do you mean by very old? And how do you know/why do you believe it is? Quite an elaborate piece of...
Kosher? Sorry, no idea, but love it.
Also helps to be familiar with the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah, so that when you see what looks like BASILE BASIL, you naturally think...
Most of it is to me too. This seems to be Greek written in Roman letters, except for the X in the abbreviation for Christos. Suppose that makes...
If a coin has legible text on it, you can usually find it without too much fuss on the Internet. (Although it does sometimes help to know just a...
Closer: [IMG] Reign of Constantine IX, 1042 - 1055 AD. Class D bronze follis. +EMMANOVHA. Christ, nimbate, with pallium and colobrium, seated in...
A search for 'ancient coin king of kings' gets an assortment of Byzantine coins with this general look.
https://www.ma-shops.com/cdma/item.php?id=501576 Not the same, but looks like same lineage.
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