Not sure any are quite as large as this, but I have a bunch stashed away in a stained glass box. They came in more than one size, don't think any...
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It would be hard to get the curved sections in one piece out of any kind of bone. It is not Celluloid/similar. Looks like ivory to me, cut with...
Knew we'd been looking at this sculptor before. Bert & Ernie.
Cattail? [ATTACH]
Oh, bravo! So it is allegorical for a spring/well.
Is it possible the case is Lemaire but not original to the glasses? Ce n'est pas une mouche!
Lemaire? Scroll down. Also see this auction.
More likely a bee.
I see a fillet &...? [ATTACH]
I see the (somewhat larger?) figure wreathed in flora, draped over more of the body, with - I think - a pelt as well as flowers & raised finger,...
[ATTACH] From fourth pic, far left bottom. Also does not look like part of the ornamentation.
[ATTACH] This is a detail from the third pic. The marks in the upper right corner look out of place. In person, do they add up to initials?
The Falconet certainly seems to have been widely reproduced. The quotation on the base of this one in the Met is amusing. When endeavoring to...
If the bit on the back I flagged in post #7 as possibly a wing is actually meant to be my other idea, an animal skin (& looks more hairy than...
There's a similarity of feeling in this fountain group: [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] You can have this one for your garden.
Between the 2 versions, there are echoes of Cupid & Psyche, Venus & Cupid, & putti as followers of Bacchus/Dionysus. (Could see it as one...
Researching the one under consideration, found this old Sotheby's listing. Anyone else disturbed by Sight about to swat a fly & Touch in agony...
Which derives from depictions of Harpocrates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpocrates Putti engaged in various activities have been such...
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