[ATTACH] Thanks for the replies. I bought the box at the local thrift store for the equivalent of USD 9. Indonesian ? You can find several...
This black, wooden (ebony ?) box carved with a king ? and crocodiles measures 8 cm X 19 cm X 12 cm. I haven't found anyone like it on the...
I recommend the zoom function on your computer.
This Chinese brass lidded jar is believed to be from the early 20th century. 17.5 cm high. What puzzles me is the mysterious relief on the bottom....
Could the artist be Jacques-Antoine Vallin (1760-1835) ? He painted several small sceneries on panel like this one with goddesses and nymps. Also...
As you remember from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" Venus disarmed her son Cupid by taking his arrows from him to avoid more torments of love. This is...
Thanks 2manybooks for the reply. So the nymphe is part of a pair. I didn't know, but now I do !
To the left you see the original marble sculpture from 1710 in Louvre. To the right you see a 38 cm high copy in patinated bronze. A 'grand tour...
Thanks for the replies. Like I said, I'm not postulating that van Douw painted mine too. What caught my eye was the strange similarity, for which...
[ATTACH] The first painting is from my collection. Painting unsigned. Oil on paper glued to wood panel. 16 cm X 22 cm. The second painting is by...
Many thanks for the fine answers ! Any idea about how old it is ?
... only 4 cm high, cast from brass and a flea market find. Probably some sort of souvenir. Can you please tell me where he comes from and when ?...
I'm impressed about the sharpening ! A computer genius ! Maybe the style of the frame can tell someting about country and age ?
[ATTACH] This portrait relief of goddess Flora looks carved from some sort of bone, possibly ivory ? The backside handwritten text tells in...
Thanks for the Parker-Hale suggestion. On my candlesticks the hyphen is missing. Only PH, as written here. Don't know if that has some importance....
I can't take a good photo of 2 mm high dark letters on a dark background.
[ATTACH] Here's a pair of brass candlesticks. Baroque form, but probably only one hundred years old ? 24 cm high. Marked on the bottoms with 2 mm...
I contacted Sotheby's. Based on the photos, they think that mine too could be by Hoet, but of course they can't tell with certainty, probably no...
Used auction catalogs are mostly discarded. For the moment I believe the painting doesn't need a conservator. I did however send both photos to an...
The RKD painting measures 31.8 cm x 45.1 cm and lacks the upper third of mine. Mine measures 55 cm x 50 cm. So it's not the same painting, but two...
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