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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4546853, member: 5833&quot;]I am very pleased to say that one is part of my collection.&nbsp; No clue to origin but betting it is French.&nbsp; I posted it when I first got it and another member suggested it might be Winter and have 3 other Seasons out there somewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>She is &#039;lava glass&#039;, glass with a gritty coating.&nbsp; Have only ever seen her in white.&nbsp; That one is mine &amp;, theme of the day, a conchoidal fracture on the back:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]402927[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have been noticing this for a while.&nbsp; Seems like it used to be that far fewer were being offered for sale, frequently at very low prices, because they didn&#039;t sell very well.&nbsp; I had always ignored them as my real love was the mythological, not the historical.&nbsp; The hardstone portrait of a woman by Rudolph Otto might be the first one I bought, or could have been one in shell by Pio Siotto.&nbsp; Actually, it was probably this guy, acquired by accident when I was mainly interested in the lava Leonardo that came with him &amp; inadvertently hit an extra number when placing a bid.&nbsp; I quickly realized he was far more interesting than da Vinci &amp; someone treasured him to the point of having a very heavy duty custom silver mount made for him when the edges broke:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/f3/63/7a/f3637ac6231a47401081cd0e5b074752.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Conceivable it is signed, but back almost entirely covered in metal.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That first guy looks like he just took off his zuchetto for the first time in a month.&nbsp; I figure another pope, do you?</p><p><br /></p><p>On the 2 in wooden frames, do you know what the material is?&nbsp; Are they plaster?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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