Featured Little Norvegian gilt silver plique a jour enamel salt cellar kyratisation!

Already posted right after the auction win in the finds thread
Unexpected last seconds auction find!
Blurry pics, described as very ornate metal little chalice...
5€!!!
I was pretty sure it was silver
Bingo!

Marked on stem with the French swan hallmark for foreign silver.
6.5cm wide, 3.5cm high.
No maker’s mark.
Perfect candidate for kyratisation ;-))

I had to carefully straighten it back, rebuild one blue petal and a whole yellow and brown leaves and berry motif with twisted silver wire.
Before, the repairs are at 7 and 10:


After:

Proud of this one too

 

Wow, looks fabulous kyratango! You are very talented, and have a good eye, great score

 

Gorgeous!

 

Thanks for the wow!
For THE eye, I have one strongly nearsighted, it helps to see clearly from very near without a loupe
The other eye is good for hunting from sellers blurry pics

 

Great work again, kyra. And a gorgeous little salt cellar.
I love plique-a-jour, but I'm sure that is even more difficult to kyratise. (Any swearing involved in this project?)

A winning combination!
I love blurry pics as well, I always hope I'm the only one who recognizes what an item actually is.

 

Plique in vitreous enamel is very hard to do (totally out of my area of bricolage!).
Repairs with cold stuff isn’t particularly difficult! I back the repair area with tape when possible, then apply JudiKins “diamond glaze” in tiny droplets with a toothpick. When dry color it with permanent markers, et voila
Haha, wrong descriptions and blurry pics always make me hope too I’ll be the only bidder

 

Kyra, what a lovely little find, and what GORGEOUS repair work you've done! Such talent! I am beyond impressed.

 

I got a $2000 totem pole off a blurry picture...for $200....

 

Awww, thank you SBSVC!
See what I'd love to be able to repair (but no way... I'm too afraid of living butterflies!)

 

Lovely find, Kyratango, and beautiful work. Amazing!

 

Oh, that is wonderful. And so good that she did so much to give an insect a new lease of life. Few people would do that.

 

And you SHOULD be proud of yet another repair so beautifully done !! Heck .. I am proud of you too !! .. Joy.

 

Nice work! That work on a live butterfly is awesome too. I have a friend who's a prosthetist; he'd love that. (He fits artificial limbs)

 

so cool! Love it

 

Oohh, Joy, now I'm really proud, thanks!

Thanks evely! The video of the butterfly is really amazing
I made a prosthetic leg too... for a Vienna bronze cockatiel!

Kiki got a new leg, built from toothpick and shaped with U.V. curing resin, colored with permanent marker!

 

Wow, Krya. What beautiful work you do. The finished product here looks brand new.