I had this print of Psyche and Zephyrus: [ATTACH] A large print, about 20" high. The thing is: the background was matte, but the figures were...
Idle guess is late 19th C., could be as early as the 1880s, I doubt that they would be later than the very early 1900s. That background...
You don't say how big they are, and from these photos I'm not even seeing canvas, though those do look like proper stretchers. I'm not the one to...
Definitely not Mucha. If they are paintings, I would expect that gold background to be tooled. You should see the texture.
Idle guess is late 17th or 18th C, if original. I'm not getting any sense of the paper from these photos, but for that period it should be laid.
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Rontgen says Achille Bloch, Paris, France.
I would guess that if it has inclusions, as opposed to bubbles, it could be smokey quartz.
I don't think Meissen did floral decoration like that, and doubt the overall quality is up to Meissen standards. But I've been wrong before.
Cairngorm is a variety of smokey quartz specific to the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland. It's the national gem.
Just from the design, it looks Scottish. The stone would be a cairngorm (or imitation of that).
I just take away the glass, but then people ask me, "Why do you photograph it without any glass?"
I'd say 19th C. I don't see this type of sentimentality as coming from the 17th C. Pretty much everything about this painting says 19th C (or...
A book I found to be very interesting reading is: The Cleaning of Paintings: Problems and Potentialities Helmut Ruhemann LoC 68-17958 Frederick...
I'd like to know art conservation myself, but I've done enough research, tried enough things, ruined enough paintings, to know that it's a field...
This was an entirely well-intentioned amateur effort: [ATTACH] Do you think that giving this person a bucketful of chemicals would have helped?...
For the Master of Art Conservation program at Queens University, these are the entrance requirements: Four-year Honours bachelor degree in...
Nobody knows? Wrong eyes have seen it? You might have put it in the Metalware forum, but I doubt that would make much difference. I don't know...
Marvelous work.
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