Featured Finds Thread

Beautiful stitching Ivy, looks LOVELY !! ... Joy.

 

They are both the Muse Urania, as I remember, after a gem by Giovanni Pichler, as is stated about this one. My usual reference web site is down at the moment so couldn't confirm. This is the one the auctioneer mentions. University of Pennsylvania's hardstone version in the Sommerville bequest.

I am happy to say the first shell cameo is mine & the second is not.

 

The poor girl in the second one seriously needs a better bra.

 

Thank you Joy.

 

I know they also advise not leaving the bowl down with left over food in it. But what has worked best for me is to go around the house looking at cat height on door frames & other places that are good for rubbing against & cleaning any place that looks grubby. I have an orange cat with a thick, oily coat whose chin always had a blackhead or 2. Completely cleared up now, even though there is almost always a bit of crusty food left in the plastic food bowls. (They drink out of ceramic & glass.)

 

Cats with acne...who knew. I guess I've never had a greasy cat.

 

Dogs also shouldn't eat or drink out of plastic bowls.

 

Got this Roseville Bleeding Heart candlestick. It was part of a pair but it's mate is severely damaged. Hopefully in the future I can find an orphan one someday for the right price.

 

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@ @Bronwen.....the gold framed Cameo with her hand on her chin, whom I believe you said is yours, the Muse Urania, after a gem by Giovanni Pichler, is lovely!!!

 

Thank you, Aquitane. I have many favorites in my collection, but she's definitely right up there. Found I do have, in my cameo photo archive, a pic of a plaster cast of the original Pichler gem:


If you're puzzling over the signature, it says Pichler in Greek letters & in reverse.

 

FASCINATING!!!!

 

I read somewhere that stainless steel gave a taint to water that dogs could smell. I stuck to ceramics after that.

 

I've generally used glass or ceramic for the cats. One cat wouldn't drink out of a ceramic bowl; she preferred water either from a glass or sitting in something in the kitchen sink, container immaterial. Then again this cat also drank out of rain puddles in the driveway where we couldn't stop her. (Lord knew what was in that) So... who knows.

 

All the dogs (5) I had preferred to drink rainwater. I assumed there was no fluoride and whatever else they put in our drinking water so I tended to give them collected rainwater.

 

Puss-Cat didn't like water out of stainless steel either.....so we used glass bowls..

 

Have read that ethylene glycol (antifreeze) as the 'glyc' in its name suggests, tastes sweet to animals. On the other hand, have also been told or read that cats can't taste sweet, so maybe not such a risk to them. And I don't know how you could have stopped her either.

I have one (boy, he of the pimply chin) cat who seems to prefer the ceramic, tiger striped water bowl in the kitchen & one (girl, boarding with me) who prefers the pink etched glass bowl in the living room. Don't know whether the preference is for the bowl or the location.

 

My guess would be location, i.e. someplace that doesn't smell of the other cat. I haven't parked a car in the driveway in close to 20 years, so the antifreeze wasn't a consideration. I'm also told cats don't have "sweet" receptors, so they're at less of a risk from antifreeze.