Lot 0149: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438158 https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/87.15.134/ Pierre-Auguste Cot:...
Lot 0109, CIVIS ROMANUS SUM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civis_romanus_sum
The Tiffany bust, lot 0105, owes a lot to conventional allegorical images of Day/Dawn:...
@Jivvy A new one for you. So you can work your own photo magic, here's the original photo, cropped & leveled out a bit: [ATTACH] All I could...
Nothing livens things up like an appearance from Special K - drop in more often! I thought we were going to have a party when 'views' hit 2,000?
Seller says Nelson is glass. Nothing to do with Nicholson; everything to do with 'warts'. :)
Well, that increases my Nicholson 'collection' by 25%. :)
British Museum: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=84540&partId=1 An Australian dealer:...
Nelson, warts & all: [ATTACH]
It looks to me like it was not re-photographed for this sale. I have the originals saved from when I was researching the piece & see no...
I would need to see more than part of a pic to come to any firm conclusion. What is shown here looks molded to me.
At one time they crossed the Pond as ballast in cargo ships returning home.
Which use Caribbean shells. :)
With those fangs, you sure this isn't Ozzie O.? What a bad job with what could have been a pretty piece, even though molded.
Hope lot 567 does well - I urged the current owner to buy it when it was previously auctioned as being by someone named Dawkin. There was no...
Looks like Hercules/Herakles.
Bluumz has told you exactly what I would have: conch shell cameos; post-WWII - early 1960s; gold filled in the proportions stated, which works out...
You have gone cross-eyed looking at too many cameo signatures, my friend.:kiss:
Sounds pretty geeky. I vaguely remember.
Totally my favorite.
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