Very good, all. The cameo, as @Jivvy said, is artificial. I have never handled one, but she turns up regularly, often described as lava, so I...
[IMG] [IMG] Which parts of this description are probably correct & which not: A antique Brooch all a rose gold TONE probably Pinchbeck the front...
The socle is marble. Material used for bust could be some sort of 'reconstituted' marble of the type used for museum reproduction, but...
She was born in 1928, so can't have been copyrighted in 1909, but if this is the little girl look movie makers favored...
I vote green serpentine from Mexico.
It really is, but a few years too early to be Temple. She was already doing movie shorts with other kids when she was 3. This looks like a still...
Could it be NR? Far right should be a date letter, but seems to be from Chinese year of the smooshed beetle.
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/68162/friendship-consoling-affliction Rabbit holes inside of rabbit holes:...
[IMG] [IMG] Yours is not compressed horizontally, just cropped at either end. It's this one that has been spread out & had another wreath...
I have no idea why the author of the Templetown article thought Flora was involved unless at the time of writing the Met had it identified that...
This is a pdf I found in connection with another spoon inquiry. It gives terminology for bowl & handle shapes, a whole wealth of stuff:...
I was going to reply that MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) doesn't know the first thing about neoclassical art & that it was surprising for them to...
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There's also just the general style of it:...
I don't have any jet jewellery such as a bracelet or necklace, but do have a couple of cameos that are in jet settings & they really could pass...
While the article labels that first illustration as Sacrifice to Flora, no such composition is mentioned in the text, while Offering to Peace &...
Wonder why the composition was altered so that lady third from left has her hand behind the figure to her right, hiding the wreath in the original?
Wedgwood used a mix of figures & scenes, some copied directly from engraved gems & other original compositions in neoclassical style. They also...
Oh good, you got there on your own. I was going to say it looks like the kind of neoclassical mishmash Wedgwood puts on its Jasper Ware, but...
I don't really see evidence of any parts being faux jet, but gutta percha & proprietary substances such as Vulcanite used to be used to mimic jet....
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