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Antique Questions Forum / Re: What does this say LOL?

« on: August 22, 2013, 12:06:07 am »

This may be a shot in the dark ... but I think that's Japanese. Shibata porcelain (made in Shibata Japan, obviously lol), has a similar symbol like the one in the lower right corner there. Shibata's stamp actually reads "Shiba ta To-ki". A lot of Shibata porcelain is newer, late 90's stuff, made for souvenirs and the like. It can be quite beautiful however. So what I'm wondering is if your frame was made in Shibata

But I could be way off, it's just a comparison guess.

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Antique Questions Forum / Help with brass art piece, maybe Arabic or Persian ?

« on: August 21, 2013, 11:45:07 pm »

Hi, first post, and just started getting into antiques a few months ago Hopefully someone can help ...

I have an older friend (70's) whose mother had this interesting piece of brass art she decided to have framed. Apparently she came across it in the 1960's, took it to have it framed, and that's that. He's been told it's origins are Arabic, Moorish, Russian ... looking at it I'm reminded of Scheherazade actually. There appears to be a signature on the bottom of it, but I can't tell what language it is ... Farsi ? Arabic ? Horrid English ? I simply don't know.

I was hoping someone would be able to tell me what this piece is supposed to be representing, perhaps the language the stamp is in, what "era" it might originate from, so on and so forth. It is about 26-30 inches I'm guessing in height. Also, it's hard to see, but there are tiny designs all over the empty space of it (you can see a bit of this near the blow up of the signature). I should have snapped a pic of the designs when I had a chance, but I didn't think of it at the time. Any help on this piece, dating it, nailing down it's style, theme, whatever ... identifying the language and artist ... would rock !





Please note that I adjusted the contrast on this signature in order to make it stand out, this piece is not this color lol --