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Identifying and Dating a Chinese Guanyin – Cast...
A close examination of a 19 cm Chinese Guanyin, combining casting evidence, copper-alloy patina, wear, stylistic comparison, practical experience and expert assessment to estimate origin and age.
Identifying and Dating a Chinese Guanyin – Cast...
A close examination of a 19 cm Chinese Guanyin, combining casting evidence, copper-alloy patina, wear, stylistic comparison, practical experience and expert assessment to estimate origin and age.
Ivory or Bone? Re-Examining a Late Qing Guanyin...
A follow-up material-identification study using macro photography, transmitted light, edge structure and hardness observations to test an earlier carved-bone attribution—and show where visual evidence stops short of proof.
Ivory or Bone? Re-Examining a Late Qing Guanyin...
A follow-up material-identification study using macro photography, transmitted light, edge structure and hardness observations to test an earlier carved-bone attribution—and show where visual evidence stops short of proof.
How to Date and Value an Antique Pichwai Painti...
A practical research case study examining a monumental late-19th-century Krishna & Gopis Pichwai from Rajasthan through its textile support, paint surface, wear, iconography and construction.
How to Date and Value an Antique Pichwai Painti...
A practical research case study examining a monumental late-19th-century Krishna & Gopis Pichwai from Rajasthan through its textile support, paint surface, wear, iconography and construction.
When Ivory Was Bone: Identifying a Monumental L...
A close object study of a monumental 60 cm Chinese Guanyin with Shancai and Longnü, showing how material structure, construction and iconography led from an initial ivory hypothesis to a...
When Ivory Was Bone: Identifying a Monumental L...
A close object study of a monumental 60 cm Chinese Guanyin with Shancai and Longnü, showing how material structure, construction and iconography led from an initial ivory hypothesis to a...
When Green Was Not Corrosion: A Polychrome Bali...
Microscopic and object-level examination of a 56 cm polychrome Balinese wooden architectural carving with a standing female figure and lower acrobat, documenting the substrate, worn colour layers, deposits and the...
When Green Was Not Corrosion: A Polychrome Bali...
Microscopic and object-level examination of a 56 cm polychrome Balinese wooden architectural carving with a standing female figure and lower acrobat, documenting the substrate, worn colour layers, deposits and the...