Boddhisattva of the Bowling Ball?
Looks like resin to me. They are cranking them out in China, Japanese signature & all.
The universal symbol for 'No Bozos'? This is a perfect example of what I think of as nouveau italien. It would not have been surprising for the...
No, I'm not: This is what I wanted to know. Do you have a cat?
All agate is the quartz mineral chalcedony; not all chalcedony is agate. Agate is a type of chalcedony formation, not the name of a mineral. In...
My first reaction was that it is assembled from little slabs. Having enlarged one of the photos, I now agree it was a single block, & only the...
Interesting thing to make a little study of. 'Scratch' is the commonly used term, or sometimes incised, for the signatures applied with a sharp...
I admit it does not look like what I am used to seeing in Celluloid when it is being used to mimic ivory. Not because the scales (are you using...
It being around 4AM, having had about four hours of sleep last night & waking up after 2 hours tonight, this succession of statements had me...
And she has us licking our jewellery. I'm almost afraid to know what's next! :kiss::kiss:
I'm trying to think along the lines of what culture would make a kid's horsie toy as a mare nursing a foal. Does it have a place where some kind...
Think you are correct. I thought I saw faint impresssions after the upright that would make an E & did not know Signa was a place name. :)
OK, the 1897 Sears Roebuck catalogue lists an assortment of razors, most with black rubber handles, one with an ivory handle (made by Farragut) &...
Oh no, no, no. Bronwen only asked some innocent questions & relayed one man's opinion. On another contentious topic, this does not look like...
As you would have guessed, Italian for terra cotta design. Now maker EF?
At the risk of sounding like we're holding a seder: How does a 'wedge blade' differ from all other kinds of blade? Is it meant to do the same job...
Maybe just upside down? ??
And why is the S in DEPOSE backward? Anyone?
I tried Genedini & Cenedini with no success, but not sure we're seeing all of the first part. I would say she is meant to be Renaissance rather...
Can we see the whole piece & all of the signature? Looks like there is more to the right than is shown.
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