Chinese seal paste - made of castor oil, cinnabar (mercury sulfide), and either finely shredded silk fibers or dried and ground leaves of Chinese...
I think you meant 16th century, which makes more sense....
It is not odd, it is the most common way they are marked. Don't know why, but it is the way it is done.
This one apparently sold on Ruby Lane for $345: [IMG]
This website lists the characteristics of a true first of Slaughterhouse-Five. "First Printing" should be stated on the copyright page. The...
One of the ways to identify many book club editions is to look at the back cover (of the book itself, not the dust jacket). If there is a small...
I believe this blanket strip is not loom work, but well applied "lazy" stitch, where small groups of beads are stitched directly to the substrate...
The first is in the style of a Japanese netsuke, although you do not give a size and there are no holes on the back as there would be on a real...
To me, it looks like a decorative copy of a fragment of sculpture.
The type of repair is traditional. https://www.bowers.org/index.php/collection/collection-blog/hawaiian-calabash-bowl @Taupou may have more insights.
You are welcome. Just glad to find the site up again. I was getting server error messages earlier today, and was beginning to suffer Antiquers...
I have nothing more to add beyond the previous links. I think determining age would be difficult, as they have been made in the same way for a...
Glad I am off the hook..........
It does look like a fish at his feet. So I would assume it is meant to be Poseidon, but with a truncated trident (easier to cast). The elongated...
2nd the Swiffer.
For a Scottish horsehair couch.........
I am assuming that you are seeing a regular pattern of dots, which shows that the image was created by a photographic process that is used to copy...
Molas are generally made of cotton fabric, not felt. Here are a couple of previous threads that have discussed molas:...
Yes. Native Americans are allowed to acquire and possess eagle feathers for specific religious purposes, with special permits. But they cannot be...
These textiles are usually called piano shawls. You can find many examples on ebay using that as a search term. Most are dated to the mid 20th...
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