Could it mean something like 'thrice valiant'?
Two-handled chamber pots seem to be much more the exception than the rule.
I know somewhere I showed these detail photos of the ivory-look frame of a similar piece of mine. It has a miniature reproduction of Raphael's...
Hello, Greg. Before we go off looking for a lid, is your grandfather certain it ever had one? Not sure they were standard issue.
You definitely can't always judge a cameo by the company it keeps. In the academic glyptics world, anything post-Renaissance is 'modern'. Was...
If the legs are a little bit springy, so they could be pressed slightly inward & would then bounce back, I'm for bird cage hanger.
'Token' is another word used in the numismatics world for some items that look like coins but are neither coins nor awards.
It looks fine. White patches on the back are quite common. Natural to the shell; left there as not worth removing.
I don't often like precious stones cut as cameos, but she can take up residence here anytime she likes. :)
Correct & correct: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/4353D96B-E95A-4D55-8DD7-6A516C489805
We can add up the visual clues & be quite confident. I had that thought too, so compared it to some Incolay examples. Original Incolay tends to...
Very contemporary resin. Scary, isn't it? In a setting, it could easily be taken for something like this: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Must have thought you have 2manybooks.
I keep imagining her with an umbrella, Mary Poppins style.
I think it's a virtual certainty that she once held something in her right hand. If there were any sign that she used to have wings, would guess...
How did your gemologist test it? Jadeite & chalcedony are in the same range on the Mohs hardness scale. We got a laugh out of the pricing of...
Welcome, Lilly. Did the dog turn up anything else with it? Wondering why that spot was chosen for excavation. Davey has the advantage on the...
Horseshoe nails? Suppose they would be too long. I can't help but picture the horse with the painting in his stall, the way people have...
Cyrillic?
True vellum is a kind of fine parchment (etymologically related to 'veal') & I suppose you could say that makes it leather. I was thinking of one...
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