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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Asian carved female figure
« on: May 06, 2019, 10:26:58 pm »
Maybe you can see a little bit better detail in this picture. The next phone I buy is going to have a better camera
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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Asian carved female figure
« on: May 06, 2019, 10:12:28 pm »
It's hand carved, it's just fairly well done. I collect wood carvings, and a good craftsman can really do amazing things with the medium. There are tons of people in many poorer countries who are really skilled at the different crafts that they do for export. I think if it was a bookend it wouldn't be carved on the back of the base it would be flat and smooth against the books. I have lots of bookends of various age and description, and they are all between 4"-7". This thing is really too big being over a foot tall. It just appears to be a stand alone decorative object to me. Something to put on a table and look at.
The bottom has only been roughed in with a gouge. I think if something was ever glued to it they would have plained it flat for better adherance. That white might be laquer that wasn't wiped down or something to do with the varnishing/staining process. Something like that I would think
The bottom has only been roughed in with a gouge. I think if something was ever glued to it they would have plained it flat for better adherance. That white might be laquer that wasn't wiped down or something to do with the varnishing/staining process. Something like that I would think
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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Asian carved female figure
« on: May 06, 2019, 12:32:35 pm »
Here's a picture of the back. I don't imagine it's a bookend because it's carved on the back of the base. It's a bit big too
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Antique Questions Forum / Asian carved female figure
« on: May 05, 2019, 05:07:31 pm »
What do y'all thing about this wood carving? She's 12.25" tall by about 5" at the base. She's got part of an earring and a bit of hair chipped off on one side. Seems to have a little age at least. Very exaggerated long arms and fingers.
Any ideas on age, origin, maybe value? Somewhere in Asia I would think. Maybe even the Philippines?
Any ideas on age, origin, maybe value? Somewhere in Asia I would think. Maybe even the Philippines?
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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Books and Bookcases
« on: February 08, 2019, 07:20:00 pm »
Yeah it's a helmet. Just a cheap reproduction of what's referred to as a Sugarloaf Great helm from around the thirteenth century I think
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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Whats going on with the forum server ?
« on: January 30, 2019, 08:14:10 am »
I'm pretty sure that I've noticed it doing that to me (here and there) for years. If I close the tab and try to load the site again it's always come up on the second try though.
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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Books and Bookcases
« on: January 28, 2019, 04:57:44 pm »
My pleasure, thanks for starting the thread. Those bookcases you've got really are quite exceptional
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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Books and Bookcases
« on: January 27, 2019, 04:10:55 pm »
It's tough to pick a favorite. If I had to though, I'd probably go with my Spainish manuscript. I love manuscripts on vellum, but most on the market are well out of my league. Athough this one was probably made over a century after the proliferation of printing, it still has something of the Medieval about it.
It's a book of Regulations and Doctrine for The Brotherhood of Souls in Purgatory. I believe that's how their name translates. I'll try to upload a picture of it if I can.
It's a book of Regulations and Doctrine for The Brotherhood of Souls in Purgatory. I believe that's how their name translates. I'll try to upload a picture of it if I can.
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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Books and Bookcases
« on: January 27, 2019, 11:41:09 am »
You can get good deals if you know how to look for them, but this seems to be the case less and less as time goes on. Years ago I saw a big beautiful incunable that was fully rubricated and unbelievably still had the original blinstamped leather binding complete with brass clasps, corners, and boss in the center of the cover. It went through Ebay (not very well listed, as the seller didn't know what they had) and I found the auction just an hour or so before it ended.
It sold for around $450, which back in those days I just didn't have. We're talking about a book worth ten grand at least. Im still sad about that one.
It sold for around $450, which back in those days I just didn't have. We're talking about a book worth ten grand at least. Im still sad about that one.
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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Books and Bookcases
« on: January 27, 2019, 10:18:23 am »
Thanks! The oldest one I have is Platina's History of the Popes from 1505. I've got a neat old Spainish Illuminated liturgical manuscript from on vellum from the mid fifteen hundreds. Fernes Blazon of the Gentrie is a book on Heraldry printed in London in 1586. There's a book of bound Parliamentary acts from the time of Oliver Cromwell, and a book of bound Sermons from Boston in the early to mid seventeen hundreds. Lots of history, science and theology. There's a 1762 Germantown imprint of a book for teaching English to the German imigrants that I haven't been able to find any reference to online. Some literature, like the novels of Edward Bulwer Lytton and James Fenimore Cooper. These aren't rare, but they have very pretty bindings.
Lots of interesting stuff, and with a few exceptions most of it required very little money to attainine. It would probably cost a lot more to go the Barnes and Nobel and fill the same space with brand new books
Lots of interesting stuff, and with a few exceptions most of it required very little money to attainine. It would probably cost a lot more to go the Barnes and Nobel and fill the same space with brand new books
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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Books and Bookcases
« on: January 26, 2019, 10:23:24 pm »
Nice bookcases! Here's a pic of some of my old books
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Antique Questions Forum / Re: American Indian embroidered cloth
« on: January 02, 2019, 05:15:45 pm »
Alas, I can't find any of the ones I was looking at earlier that I thought were the most similar. They're called Yei Dancers I think. Just Google Yei Dancers and look at the images page. They're often depicted with very long torsos, but not always.
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Antique Questions Forum / Re: American Indian embroidered cloth
« on: January 02, 2019, 03:30:15 pm »
Yeah, I don't know, i've come across other figures wearing skirts just like that in Navajo textiles.