Looks like maybe the Damascene-framed Flora has an acid etched signature on the back? Hard to tell with the reflections.
I'm going to put my money on little Japanese children with melons & wait for someone who actually knows something to come along to sort out this...
For putting new holes in really, really big belts?
Tried to find anything that might give a clue. As for art, these are along the same lines:...
Someone will know better, I'm just going by the tiny bit I know. Is it possible this is Japanese? Or maybe China has similar traditional...
It is nice to have others with an interest to share with. There are not so many of us around. And so say the other residents of my house:...
As everyone is getting to know, I heartily endorse that.:cat::turtle:
Don't need to tell you that your conch shell bacchante & forward facing helmet shell Flora, she of the much admired setting, are particularly...
We'll never know if cutter was seeing spots or just showing off what could be done with the material, but I like that this one has not been all...
Thank you, Girl. A welcome is always welcome, no matter when it arrives. One of my pet peeves is that so much gorgeous work is not signed, yet a...
In the field of glyptics, stone cameos & intaglios are all referred to as engraved gems &, even though it is common to say a cameo is 'carved',...
Some earlier examples: http://www.medieval-rings.com/rings/renaissance-blackamoor-cameo-ring-35225 http://wb.britishmuseum.org/MCN9979#1469229001
Another of the shell ones. [ATTACH]
This one http://www.ebay.com/itm/192324415288 and others in which the figure is dark brown instead of absolutely black look to me like they...
Think we can plausibly rule out diamond & fancy sapphire on grounds of size alone; can't imagine such a stone going about incognito. Stone could...
See I dropped a stitch in the thread. It all holds together. The first mark is AR [Arezzo] ITALY.
I would go for this one, except the bracelet is marked as having been made in Italy.
Think in this case AG would be for Agrigento? http://www.925-1000.com/Fitalian_marks_01.html
One less than expert opinion on the stone: glass or amethyst treated to look like citrine. It is not uncommon to find older 10K rings, from when...
Freshwater pearls. The term for the ones with grooves running around them is 'cerclé'. The stones are certainly meant to look like turquoise....
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