This is all ivory & described as Japanese, but shape/construction very similar: http://en.51bidlive.com/PreView/PreViewDetails/1276689 [IMG]
Take your pick.
The holes look large for pepper. Are you sure they're not for salt?
Size?
Is it hollow? Have seen little flasks that were similar in overall shape that seal with a cork.
This one looks like it says something slightly different but that would rhyme? [IMG] Or is the first letter of the last word just written in a...
It's possible I think the cameo resembles this particular sister only because she is the only one of 3 that is shown in profile. But since the...
Moving this over for easier reference. [ATTACH]
I abandoned this notion when I could see the mark is a complicated monogram, not a star. :)
You may not be fully fluent, but your knowledge has been so helpful, & so much appreciated, again & again. I can only apply a little bit of Greek...
Merci, ma chère. I don't have any knowledge that is power, but I do have some that will be profitable someday. :kiss::kiss:
I found among my mother's things a small collection of vintage photographs, which she had no doubt bought on the assurance that they were...
It seems very sad to me that this has become just more eBay merch, when someone must have loved this child very much: [IMG]
I had the same thought: the center plate was meant to be monogrammed. I also wonder whether the ivory was cut from a larger scene or frieze....
If you'd like the entertainment of how we thrashed it out, see:...
We have a photo. We need you to tell us what we are seeing. :)
Olenin was President of the Imperial Academy of Art & then also director of the library. The engraving is on the back of a portrait cameo that is...
?? I see the same maker's mark, the monogram with about 4 letters crammed in. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thank you, April. Since OP says case was a gift c. 1930, is it possible the spelling reforms did not reach everywhere in the first year? Could...
Ville d'Argent seems to be a respected Dutch brand. You have a boxed set that includes...what? Fountain pen, ballpoint pen, mechanical...
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