Featured Finds Thread

Couple of recent lil'finds:

Little "Made in Czecho/Slovakia" vase.


Pickard decorated porcelain sugar:



Probably pretty new but for 2 bucks - crystal vase:


Small dol hareubang stone figure:


Paperweight - illuminated to see the nice blue color



Maybe Murano seahorse:


Marked and numbered but haven't figured out maker yet:



THOMAS Keramik pot:

 

Thanks Sue!! The first 2 did not come cheap, but in both cases I was bidding against a guy who has a real hoarding problem. He buys all this stuff & puts it into plastic totes. The totes are never unpacked but are taken home & piled all around the house as well as out in the yard covered by tarps.

In the case of the tea set I just couldn't let that happen, because the next time we saw it all of the pieces may or may not be intact.

I haven't been to his house in years, but I have been told that there are rooms you can not even get inside.

 

Geez.

 

Anund, I'm sure you see it looks like "Dzea" on your 'Duchesse de Rohan'. Those 3 miniatures are the best finds I would probably ever hope to find!!!! Really great!!

 

@anundverkaufen!!!!! Tell me if I'm shooting in the dark or just dreaming, but I think I found a siggy on the miniature guy you bought.....you know I like to play with images....I lightened and hit the 'curves' and THINK I found what's circled in red below.....Good Luck if it's real!! Whoops.....let me add a close-up!!!! Back in a minute!!

OK, so hopefully you're on a computer and use a mouse with a scroll function AND are using WINDOWS!! First click on the image....then, Hold down the "CTL" key while scrolling FORWARD to blow up the screen......best way to see what I found!!

 

great score anund the portraits are beautiful, but that carving is very cool!

 

This is the signature on the male, full sunlight to get it to show in the dark background. It’s to the right of his head, vertically.

Thank you! With that I found a few other French portraits signed Dzea.

 

Dumoul??-something

 

That's AWESOME!!!! Is the image OUT of the frame to find it??

 

You can also hold down Crtrl & hit the + key to enlarge in steps.

 

Yes, I could barely see it through the glass so the image I posted is out of the frame without the glass.
Unfortunately it had no id. of the sitter on the back.

 

Thanks! I see a lot of artist on askart in France named Dumoulin.

 

Jeez Louis, color me green with envy. That center miniature in particular.

 

My favorite too!

 

Obviously catching up here. I think it's probable that the two Duchesses are copies, but the man might be original and, at an idle guess, early 19th C.

 

And lots of animals last week at my auction house;

 

I swore I was off gilded anything,but that tea set is stunning!

 

I thought so too.

 

OOOOOH!!! My turn to learn something new.....I get set in my ways and don't tend to try something new!!! Thanks, Bronwen!!!!

 

GREAT find, though!!!!