Aww! I did (half) joke with the husband that if this strike is still on going into the next quarter, that I was signing up for jewelry making at...
Mine are young jewelry making grads of the local prestigious art school so they know about technique but little about history. My relatively...
Such a shame. It's an amazing art. But the time and skill involved make it an expensive art to buy, where the artist has a living wage. Usually...
I re-read this thread with interest last month so I had a refresher. :smuggrin: That flower cameo is so delicate and lovely! Definitely a match on...
The letter asserting all non-white people should be enslaved, and the pivot to praising Franco and Hitler were particular stand outs.
Thank you!! :shame: Thank you! I'm starting to collect a whole portfolio of gross-to-great cameos. They're (so far) an addictive surprise...
If you're going to talk to an expert, this is probably the one as he made a career out of determining Dali fakes and can do print appraisals from...
Ha we buy antique and vintage jewelry so clearly a little possible damage doesn't deter us from purchase! :playful: I don't file, but they do...
Yep, that's exactly why. It's also a good sign it's a factory painting. Framers do leave vents, but not like this.
A printing plate would be reversed so the letters spell correctly on the copies. This was always meant to be hung like it is. :)
You can get an inexpensive acid test kit for gold, silver, and platinum...but you have to scrape or file a bit of the item to test. My preferred...
Same, but I assumed it was dressing up a necessary function... like making it textured to save on metal, or to more easily de-mold it.
Ha, the first piece looks like an artist, the second looks like an amateur. Meaning, the first has deliberate thought-out abstraction, following...
The rounder features and enlarged head make me think a child as well.
Hmmm her face looks much like Bronwen's....Erato? I think that was also a Poinsignon? She's awfully lovely and that's a stunning frame.
I haven't seen others with his first name to compare so I'll have to keep an eye out. I'm curious, from what you've found out about him, if he...
I held off on this one for a long time but in the end thought I could rescue her, so submitted a lower offer and brought her here from Australia....
I re-read the entire cameo signature thread for this purpose and was delighted you had sussed out such a sparing mark! So you think the "Ales" is...
Filigree appears to be an acceptable colloquialism here, at least when searching for items of similar type. If someone is wanting to find more...
Yes, that is what I read, thus my question about when a piece is cast and not cut.
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