Pat, it is cloisonne, the Japanese used incredibly fine silver or copper wire, and you can see that clearly in the photos...
Hi, I think you are right, it certainly is Japanese cloisonne. And your date or maybe around 1900 sounds good. However, the damage is a real...
To me it clearly does not look like the Colosseum. It looks to me more like it is loosely inspired by some architectural fantasy fom the...
Hi, can you show a detail picture of the decoration? I have a small suspicion that it could be cast in some way, but have to see better photos. I...
Hi, the signature is of Katsukawa Shun'ei. I could not find your exact print anywhere, but here is a very similar one, maybe from the same series:...
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I think so too!
I think this is Mary as Queen of Heaven, here are some comparable figures, especially the one on top of the site, an example from Spain:...
Here is another one, without the handles: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/3138133
Found it, it is a copy of the Gandersheim Casket, which is believed to be Anglo-Saxon, but was kept in a monastery in Germany....
I think the Celts never used runes. Runes are a Germanic thing, so maybe it is meant to be Anglo-Saxon or more likely Viking...
Thank you both again! If I find out something definite about my figure, I will post it here. Nuff_Said, I have no idea what your figures are, but...
Hi, yes, this is Japanese, the technique is called Katagami-suri Inbande, printed by stencil-paper. It was used already in the 19th century, and...
Thank you all for your ideas! I will begin with the suggestion that the figure could be Tibeto-Chinese. As far as I know this term refers to art...
And height is 12.5 cm...
Thank you both! Springfield, I tried to make some better photos. As you can see the bottom is filled up with this black mass ( in an attempt to...
Hi, I bought this little figure. Its hollow base is filled with some modern black material to stabilize it. It has an older label stating it it...
Hi, I do not know where it is from, but it does not look like Hirado to me.
Hi, I cannot help much, but this could be very well Chinese instead of Japanese. The only thing I think I can understand is a cyclical date in the...
Thank you so much for sharing all that information, say_it_slowly! You are lucky to have these reference books, I will try to find at least some...
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