I know so little about antique furniture my surrender seems almost contrived but I am at an impasse. I have spent hours reading up on leg designs,...
That's some crazy amazing detective work Jivvy! Thanks ;) I'll update the thread if I can find out what church is in the painting. Looks like it...
Thank you Jivvy! sounds promising :)
Lovely little painting (8" x 11") I'm guessing French countryside with heavy emphasis on guess. Try as I may I can't riddle out the signature....
Looks very much like the format of this Sir Galahad print I have: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Mine is a stone lithograph. I'm going to take a...
I think I may understand where some of our crossed wires are happening. Are you under the impression that I that I think my mask is traditionally...
I don't understand what you mean by issues, I just don’t think the Yamaguchi has eye holes. I suppose we could write and ask him if we really need...
It seems it was originally an English Woolstaplers Mark (1559-1564)...
Love the lid!
[ATTACH] I didn’t mean to imply that you couldn’t place eye holes in the pupils of a mask but the picture you reference from the met shows...
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I don’t know Jivvy, I suppose it’s possible, but if those are eye holes, they would have to be a custom job to fit a particular set of eyes (the...
I’ll do that when I get home.
I better understand that comment now, for some reason I tied that in w/ the lacquering (though in retrospect that makes no sense : )
They may usually be there, but not in this case: [ATTACH]
Thank you!
Cool, thanks for the info!
That’s what I get for skimming :hilarious:
Fun piece! Looks like the maker took separate strips of glass (24 if I counted correctly) fused them into a vase shape and then re-fired the whole...
How do you do that?
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