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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;columba, post: 3878786, member: 19097&quot;]Hello Cheryl</p><p>Thanks for your comments and images, I agree with you that it looks French.</p><p>I am not the expert here .If a French antiques dealer of many years selling high end things for many years on one of the best streets for selling antiques(who is also French himself) is saying it is not French ,I have to accept his opinion (he may also be wrong). </p><p><br /></p><p>I think you will find the pattern on the base is called engine turning it came in all different patterns ,the stippling or dashes on the brown areas may have been done before or after casting (very fine if done before casting) my feeling done after casting before painting. Same as chasing on gold sections ,done in my opinion after casting before gilding (all may have been cast only?)</p><p><br /></p><p>The detail is so fine ,if all cast must have been done in the lost wax process to get the detail. Original design done in wax.</p><p><br /></p><p>Columba.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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