@i need help has nailed it once again!
This is a broken Manuel Felguerez sculpture. Mexican, desirable if not busted! The one I have, mother and child, is signed.
oops! been an antiquer too long I guess ....siggie, as @clutteredcloset49 says, is a signature ..:oops:
Don't want to seem skeptical as you have experience handling ivories, but the siggie doesn't look carved, but more like it was molded? I just...
Yay! I got it!!
Well come on, what is it, short attention span here, y'know!
isn't it for ironing sleeves and pants?
@antidiem I wish you hadn't mentioned crab as I sure could eat a nice crab right now ...not a chance in present circumstances though...
I think most of these are Belgian, although in my crowd we used to dismiss these as "fretchings":jawdrop:
19thc? I don't think so! Oh and Chinese as has been noted above.
Don't drop it on your toes
The oval is English, 18thc and in the original frame. Looks to be a stipple, Bartolozzi or one of his contemporaries - very often ovals and...
Ok, maybe I did rush to judgement - :shame::shy::sorry: - the ones I've owned were much more colorful ..carry on!
Nice, but there ain't no 16th c Albarelli in that pic, 18thc I could go along with ...
No, but it would make a good foot massager
Bergen is in Norway so I suspect it is a Scandinavian language
Oil, lamp, pottery not porcelain very crude, not so sure it is old though, but just guessing ...but on second look maybe that's encrustation on...
Nice one! Pattern name? not so much, beautiful quality though.
Lets have a look at the albarello - I LOVE them!
Good quality.
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