For those of us who don't know betel leaf holders from Beetle Juice, how big is this?
The Lapatin paper details known provenance. I doubt Michelini would have had the opportunity to see the private collections, but Tassie got...
The painting was a scene of downtown Chicago, along Michigan Avenue, as seen from the front of the Art Institute of Chicago. What was at issue...
What I thought was wild was that the correction to the original correction only changed the revised date by a couple of years, a difference of...
At the risk of hijacking this thread, just had to share this. In looking over Kenneth Lapatin's paper on the Getty Gnaios once more, was suddenly...
It really could be that old. Lots were made; they have always been valued; they are durable. So they survive down the centuries. As to age,...
I think what looks like a cross is a stylization of the intertwined ribbons of the herald's staff/caduceus & the downward pointing thing is his...
Interesting about Poseidon's salty spring water. In the version I know he gave them the horse.
It works for me in the US. Could be more stringent UK/EU copyright restrictions.
A patera, perhaps. Good observation. It would normally be Hebe or Ganymede serving Zeus, but it really does look like Hermes to me. Probably...
The thing I never quite get used to is that crudely engraved gems like this one are later than the highly accomplished ones of the Hellenistic and...
I shot off a note without really looking closely, so retracted my hasty impression. Have revised it now. Still working on OP's question, but...
Appears to be Herakles/Hercules, not Cecrops. Athena welcoming him to Olympus would be my guess. There are similar scenes where the female is...
* Thorvaldsen's version: [ATTACH]
I'll get back to this later, after I take care of some things I have to do first, but my immediate impressions are that this one is stone,...
I'm not sure I know what you're asking, so forgive me if this does not answer it. In an intaglio, the figure/design is engraved down into the...
I always thought the dress looked like a little girl's idea of a bride's dress, & then she mixed up the order of his names when saying her vows....
It is a glass intaglio meant for leaving an impression in sealing wax. Judging by the small size, probably, as CC said, from a watch fob seal or,...
This thread is turning into All Schmoll, All The Time. This auction has been & gone, but not Lincoln & not Lee, sold for 125 USD:...
They are representing this as lava, although pricing as if they know better:...
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